Tajikistan holds at least 1,000 political prisoners, according to Mr. Kabiri, the party’s exiled head. Image A view of Loyob, Tajikistan, from the home of a suspect in the terrorist attack.

By Neil MacFarquhar In the past year, jihadists from Tajikistan have been involved in an unusually high number of terrorist attacks or foiled plots linked to the Islamic State. The suspects in the ...

a mountainous district in Tajikistan, 60 miles northeast of the capital city of Dushanbe. They were with five other cyclists they had met on their journey along the Pamir Highway, a bucket-list ...

But the officials involved in the review said U.S. intelligence determined that even if al-Logari had not been released from prison, the attack would likely have still been carried out because ...