Tajikistan has launched an anti-terror operation in its restive Gorno-Badakhshan province, which borders Afghanistan and China, Russia's RIA news agency cited the Tajik interior ministry as saying on Wednesday.[…] Dozens of people were killed in clashes between a domestic armed group and government forces in Gorno-Badakhshan in 2012.

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At many institutions, I have found atheophobia to be rampant among students; and religiophobia to be common among faculty.

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