Tajikistan detains 114 over clashes in troubled region
After deadly skirmishes erupted in Tajikistan’s eastern area, which the authoritarian state has long battled to control, police said over 100 people were arrested in a “counter-terror operation” on Thursday. Nine people, eight of whom the government described as “militants”, and one officer were killed Wednesday following the worst violence in the remote Gorno-Badakhshan region since 2012. … Read more
