Saakashvili’s Appointment Spells More Trouble for Transnistria, Tajikistan’s War on Islam Backfires as OMON Commander Joins ISIS & More!
*The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits in Central Asia and the Caucasus region between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players.
The disappearance of Colonel Gulmurod Halimov, commander of Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry paramilitary squad (OMON), has caused a great stir in the Central Asian country. Tajik media reports suggested early on that Halimov had traveled to Syria in order to join the West’s beloved terrorist army ISIS but his family dismissed these reports as “baseless” and portrayed him as a dedicated policeman and father of eight. While his brother insisted that Halimov had never spoken about ISIS, Asia-Plus quoted a friend as saying that he had turned
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