Ministry of Interior of Tajikistan reported that the country’s security agencies managed to foil 36 terrorist attacks in 2016 and stopped some 50 people from mounting attacks on government buildings. Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimzoda addressed a press conference yesterday in Dushanbe, the country’s capital, saying that more than 400 people were detained last year in Tajikistan on suspicion of belonging to various terrorist groups. He further said that over the same period, 40 people joined Islamic State. He did not provide details of specific alleged plots at his press conference.
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