Tajikistan Jamaat Ansarullah

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The Tajikistan Jamaat Ansarullah (TJA), also known as the Tajikistani Taliban, is a Islamist jihadist militant organization that primarily operates along the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border. Its stated aim is to overthrow the Republic of Tajikistan under President Emomali Rahmon and establish an Islamic emirate there. The TJA was founded in 2006 and consisted of dissident Islamist factions of the United Tajik Opposition who were opposed to the 1997 armistice that ended the Tajikistani Civil War (1992–1997). The TJA publicized its presence in 2010 by claiming responsibility for the Khujund police station bombing. As of July 2021, members of the organization has served as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s partial border security for the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border. The group has also been a flashpoint of deterioration in Afghanistan–Tajikistan relations under the Taliban regime. The group's current leader Mahdi Arsalan is believed to be in northern Afghanistan. In 2025, a United Nations...

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