Dushanbe, Tajikistan, January 10, 2020 – U.S. Ambassador John Mark Pommersheim, and General-Major Mahmadzoda Suhrob Talbak, Deputy Minister for Logistics of Tajikistan’s Ministry of Defense, participated in a handover ceremony for light-utility vehicles.  The vehicles will enable the mobile forces under Tajikistan’s Ministry of Defense to conduct operations in a wide range of terrain and ... Read More»

Opening Remarks by Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Alice Wells Assalom aleikum, good afternoon.    It’s a real pleasure to be back in Tajikistan.  About 28 years ago, after my husband and I helped open the first U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe.  It’s amazing to see how far Tajikistan has come.  I’m ... Read More»

At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the ... Read More»