✦ History

Tajikistani Civil War

May 5, 1992 – June 27, 1997 · Tajikistan

Result Armistice

Regional factions and Islamist and democratic opposition fought the government of Tajikistan. Tens of thousands died before a UN-backed peace agreement.

On the map Contemporaries

Tajikistan

United Tajik Opposition

Other

Tajikistan
Russia
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Popular Front of Tajikistan
United Tajik Opposition
Boris Yeltsin belligerent leader Nursultan Nazarbayev belligerent leader Askar Akayev belligerent leader Emomali Rahmon belligerent leader Akbarsho Iskandrov belligerent leader Rahmon Nabiyev belligerent leader Islam Karimov belligerent leader

Strength and losses

Wounded
1,583

Tajikistan Strength 42,000–45,000

Uzbekistan Strength 20,600

Kazakhstan Strength 10,300

Kyrgyzstan Strength 278

Russia Killed 302

Killed
c. 10,000

Units

Russian Ground Forces 372nd Rifle Division 15th Independent Special Forces Brigade 22nd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade 3rd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade 201st Guards Military Base

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