Isis In Tajikistan

A prison guard and prisoner were killed during a jailbreak by a trio of "Islamist" inmates in Tajikistan's north today, police in the ex-Soviet country said.

Farrukh Sharifov, a 25-year-old Tajik who repented after joining the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, spoke softly as he addressed a room full of journalists and police in his Central Asian homeland.

The president of Tajikistan on Saturday called the Islamic State group a modern "plague", expressing concern that several hundred young people had left the ex-Soviet republic to fight with jihadists in Syria.

A prison guard and prisoner were killed during a jailbreak by a trio of "Islamist" inmates in Tajikistan's north today, police in the ex-Soviet country said.

Farrukh Sharifov, a 25-year-old Tajik who repented after joining the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, spoke softly as he addressed a room full of journalists and police in his Central Asian homeland.

The president of Tajikistan on Saturday called the Islamic State group a modern "plague", expressing concern that several hundred young people had left the ex-Soviet republic to fight with jihadists in Syria.