Dushanbe

It is just a few hours' drive south from Dushanbe and he says it has become IS's primary base since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021.

The prosecutor’s office said that after a criminal investigation was launched, Ashurov, 43, a resident of Dushanbe, fled to Moldova via Turkey “with the aim of going into hiding in EU countries.”

The jet took off from California, where it had been in storage, and arrived in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, early on Monday.

Another hit the town of Vanj, killing one person; the third casualty was reported on a highway between capital Dushanbe and the city of Varzob.

A hundred years ago, Dushanbe was only a village between Kabul and Samarkand.