Jamaat Ansarullah

'Tajikistani Taliban Movement'), is a Tajik Islamic fundamentalist militant group operating out of Northeastern Afghanistan with the intention of overthrowing the current government of Tajikistan.

According to an official from the Tajik Border Troops, members of the group walk demonstratively along the Panj everyday, or drive their cars in the area to verbally harass them via loudspeaker.

[12] On April 26, 2023, the State Committee for National Security counter-terrorism forces killed three fighters of Jamaat Ansarullah in the village of Dashti Yazoglum.

[13] Another incident occurred on September 6, 2023, the State Committee for National Security counter-terrorism unit killed three fighters of Jamaat Ansarullah.

The leadership of Jamaat Ansarullah said they would only negotiate with the Tajik government if the latter agreed to several conditions including expelling the Russian 201st Military Base and declaring an Islamic state.

[15] As of August 2023, border guards of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and several other sources close to Jamaat Ansarullah confirmed that the group was no longer present in the districts they were initially given security for.

[17] In 2017, the Singapore-based International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research reported that the group had less than 100 fighters, and thus didn't have the manpower to overthrow the Tajik government.

[18] However, an officer from the Tajik Border Patrol said in an interview to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that the group's current leader, Muhammad Sharifov, "introduced" 200 members to Afghanistan in July 2021.

On Telegram channels, supporters of the group have portrayed and ridiculed Rahmon as an idolater protected by a servile security apparatus, and the titles he holds, saying they were concocted by "palace psychopaths."

'[17] In September 2011, the organization issued several videos calling on Tajik citizens to embrace jihad against infidels and take action supporting the implementation of sharia nationwide.

A man in one of the videos claims "Those who pray namaz, who follow fasting rules but support democracy are nonbelievers…Allah is killing nonbelievers by our hands and, thus, blesses us.