HE the Minister of Economy and Commerce, Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed al-Thani has said efforts will be made to encourage joint investment projects between Qatari and Tajikistan businessmen.

Three Russian climbers and two Tajik crew members have died in a helicopter ‘hard landing’ in Tajikistan's remote mountainous region, emergency services said Monday.

The move is a response to the attack by an armed gang on a group of seven foreign cyclists on Sunday.

An armed gang attacked a group of seven foreign cyclists, killing four and injuring two, on a popular biking route in the south of the impoverished ex-Soviet nation on Sunday.

Four tourists, including two Americans, were killed in Tajikistan on Sunday by armed attackers in what was originally reported as a hit-and-run road accident, the interior minister said Monday.

Seven construction workers from Tajikistan died in western Siberia Saturday when the shipping container they used as a home at a building site caught fire, officials said.

At least 30 homes and a school were destroyed in an earthquake that caused no injuries or deaths in Tajikistan, the ex-Soviet country's state emergencies committee reported Saturday.

Polls closed in former Soviet Tajikistan yesterday in a referendum on constitutional changes almost certain ...

HE the Minister of Economy and Commerce Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed al-Thani yesterday called for increasing trade ties between Qatar and Tajikistan.

Afghan forces on Sunday wrested control of a northern district bordering Tajikistan from the Taliban, officials said, two months after its capture stoked fears the jihadists' violence could spread to Central Asia.