Tajiks (or Tadzhiks) are the original Iranian population of Central Asia, the present-day inhabitants of the nation of Tajikistan. Various groups of Tajiks, in Tajikistan, parts of central and southern Uzbekistan, northern Afghanistan, the Uighur...

This article is about the Central Asian Persians known as Tajiks. Refer to Persian people regarding Persians of Iran. Tājik (Persian: تاجيک; UniPers: Tâjik; Tajik: Тоҷик) is a term generally applied to Persian-speaking peoples of Iranian...

President Emomalii Rakhmon has banned high school graduation parties in this largely Muslim Central Asian nation, the latest in a string of edicts on Tajik cultural and social life.Rakhmon said he was concerned about the "pompous" and "excessive luxury" of school festivities, according to his...

Central Asia's poorest county is also one of the world's leading transit routes for heroin, opium and other drugs from Afghanistan. Sergei Makhkamov has been caught in the flood."I tried it, I liked it and it went from there," said the haggard, fidgety, out-of-work 24-year-old...

Afghanistan's top prosecutor accused a general of attacking and trying to kidnap him Friday, a claim that highlighting the factionalism and suspicion that dogs the U.S.-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.The allegations surfaced as roadside bombs and battles killed six police officers and left 13...