PANNIER: Who’s killing Chinese workers on the Afghan-Tajik frontier?

PANNIER: Who’s killing Chinese workers on the Afghan-Tajik frontier?

Someone in northern Afghanistan near the Tajik border is targeting Chinese workers just across the river inside Tajikistan.On November 26, three ...

Drone strike on Tajik-Afghan border kills 3 Chinese nationals amid rising regional tensions

Three Chinese nationals were killed and one injured in a drone-assisted armed assault near Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan. The attackers used a UAV armed with grenades—an increasingly common insurgent tactic. The attack highlights escalating violence in Central Asia since the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of Afghanistan. No group has claimed responsibility, but Tajik officials suspect militants […]