Tajikistan, a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia, has Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Pakistan as its bordering neighbors. The Rasht Valley, an administrative and geographic unit of Tajikistan, became the stronghold of the opposition forces during the Tajikistan Civil War (1992-1997).
Rasht was the stronghold of the Islamists that belonged to the United Tajik Opposition [...]