Tajikistani Civil War
Part of the Post-Soviet conflicts
Date5 May 1992 – 27 June 1997
(5 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Tajikistan
Result

Military stalemate

  • United Nations-sponsored armistice
  • Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed
  • Rahmon wins the 1999 Tajik presidential election
  • The United Tajik Opposition is promised 30% of the ministerial positions
Belligerents

Tajikistan Tajikistan

  • Popular Front of Tajikistan
  • Communist Party of Tajikistan
  • Socialist Party of Tajikistan

Russia Russia
 Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan
United NationsUNMOT
Supported by:

  •  Belarus (weapons supplies)

United Tajik Opposition

  • Islamic Renaissance Party
  • Democratic Party
  • Party of People's Unity
  • Rastokhez Popular Movement
  • Lali Badakhshan
  • Gorno-Badakhshan
  • Jamiat-e Islami (until 1996)
AfghanistanAfghanistan (until 1996)
Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (until 1996)
AfghanistanTaliban factions
Supported by:
al-Qaeda
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Commanders and leaders
TajikistanRahmon Nabiyev
TajikistanAkbarsho Iskandrov
TajikistanEmomali Rahmon
UzbekistanIslam Karimov
RussiaRussiaBoris Yeltsin
KazakhstanKazakhstanNursultan Nazarbayev
KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstanAskar Akayev
United NationsJordanHassan Abaza
Sayid Abdulloh Nuri (UTO)
Mohammed Sharif Himmatzade (IRP)
Ibn al-Khattab
Shadman Youssof (Democratic Party)
Strength
TajikistanTajikistan42,000–45,000
RussiaRussia5,000–15,000 border troops
Uzbekistan20,600
KazakhstanKazakhstan10,300
KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan278
Estimated around 60,000–70,000
Casualties and losses
UnknownUnknown
20,000–100,000 killed
40+ journalists killed
1.2 million displaced
  1. ^The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which was headed by the Taliban and governed 90% of Afghanistan, officially declared their neutrality in the conflict, though several Taliban factions went on to fight on the side of the opposition nonetheless.