SEPT. 4 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – A bomb exploded near a mosque in central Tashkent. Nobody was hurt in the explosion. Police said they are looking for two people who left the bomb in a bag at a bus stop.
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SEPT. 10 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Around 15,000 ethnic Armenians have fled their homes in Syria and resettled in Armenia, the BBC quoted the UN as saying. More than 100,000 Armenians had lived in Syria, mainly around Aleppo before a civil war broke out in 2011.
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SEPT. 11 2015, DUSHANBE (The Conway Bulletin) — Tajikistan’s security forces have been scouring rough countryside in a valley 150km from the capital Dushanbe for the country’s most wanted man, General Abduhalim Nazarzoda, a former deputy defence minister.
The authorities accuse Gen. Nazarzoda of masterminding a series of early morning attacks in Dushanbe and a police station at Vahdat, a town 10km away, on Sept. 4 that killed at least nine policemen and 13 gunmen.
In Dushanbe, the authorities blocked access to social media sites and ordered more soldiers to patrol along the streets.
Hoji Said, a local Dushanbe resident, summed up the tense atmosphere in the capital.
“I have not seen so many policemen in Dushanbe,” he said.
Still, despite the extra security, a World Cup football qualifier match between Tajikistan and Australia went ahead. Australia won 3-0.
Gen. Nazarzoda was one of the leaders of the Tajik United Opposition, a coalition that fought against the government in a civil war in the mid-1990s. He fled the country but returned after a UN- brokered peace deal ensured handed him a role in the government.
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AUG. 4 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – In an interview with the state-run Turkish news agency Andalou, Afghan vice-president General Abdul Rashid Dostum said he believed the Islamic extremist group IS would target Azerbaijan and the South Caucasus. IS has been increasing its recruitment drive across Central Asia and the South Caucasus.
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SEPT. 2 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – The security forces in Azerbaijan said they had detained five men for bring- ing arms into the country, planning various attacks and having links to the Islamic extremist group IS. Media reported that the five men had had links to IS in Syria and Iraq between 2013 and 2015.
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SEPT. 3/4 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Unidentified men launched a series of attacks on government buildings in Dushanbe, killing at least nine policemen, media reported. Media said the men were linked to Islamic extremism, although this has not been confirmed.
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SEPT. 3 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Shelling along the de facto border around the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh killed at least one Armenian solider, media reported quoting Armenian sources. Sporadic fighting around Nagorno- Karabakh, which is controlled by Armenian-backed separatists, is fairly commonplace.
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AUG. 30 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Speaking at a ceremony to mark 24 years of independence from the Soviet Union, Uzbek president Islam Karimov said that he wouldn’t allow a foreign military base to be established in Uzbekistan and that the country would always maintain its neutrality. Germany has a military base in southern Uzbekistan
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AUG. 19 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Georgia’s government accused Russia of flying a military helicopter into its air space around the border of the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Earlier this year South Ossetian forces apparently grabbed a slither of Georgian territory. Russia is also staging large scale military exercises in South Ossetia.
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(News report from Issue No. 244, published on Aug. 21 2015)
AUG. 17 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Russia will build a new radar system in Azerbaijan, its ministry of defence said in a TV broadcast, underlining just how links between the two countries have developed. It will replace a radar station at Qabala that Russia had leased from Azerbaijan. In 2012 Azerbaijan declined to sign a lease extension on the radar at Qabala to Russia.
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(News report from Issue No. 244, published on Aug. 21 2015)
