Tajik Rebels Threaten Attacks

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Islamist rebels in Tajikistan have threatened to renew attacks on government forces and called on Tajiks to rise against the rule of President Emomali Rakhmon. Security forces this month tracked down and killed an Islamist warlord known as Mullah Abdullo and accused him of carrying out an attack on a column of troops in September. “It is time for the Muslims to stand up and throw off the chains of [Rakhmon] and his wretched inner […]