FACT CHECK: Were an American Couple Killed by Isis While Trying to 'Prove Humans Are Kind'?
Snopes2 days agoAmericans Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan were killed in Tajikistan while cycling through "Isis territory" in order to vindicate their belief in human kindness. Isis militants claimed ...
‘Evil Is a Make-Believe Concept’: Couple Who Biked Around the World, Concluding Humans Are Basically Good, Killed by ISIS Terrorists
Christian News Network1 day agoA couple who had quit their jobs and set off on a biking expedition last July, concluding from their travels that “humans are kind” and “[e]vil is a make-believe concept,” were killed by Islamic ...
After deaths of American cyclists, is traveling to Tajikistan safe?
Chicago Tribune2 days agoOn July 29, five terrorists in Tajikistan rammed a car into a group of seven Western cyclists, then set upon them with knives. Four of the cyclists were killed: two from the United States ...
Helicopter crashes in Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains, 5 dead
Los Angeles Times5 days agoAfter the Soviet Union fell in 1991, it became part of the independent Central Asian nation of Tajikistan. It was renamed in 1998 after a ruler of the Samanid dynasty.
Three climbers, two crew die in Tajikistan helicopter crash
AFP via Yahoo News5 days agoThree Russian climbers and two Tajik crew members have died in a helicopter "hard landing" in Tajikistan's remote mountainous region, emergency services said Monday. Twelve other climbers ...
Climbers feared dead in Tajik crash
BBC News5 days agoThirteen climbers and three crew members are unaccounted for after a helicopter they were travelling in had a "hard landing" in the mountains of Tajikistan, officials say. The accident ...
5 die in helicopter crash in Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains
ABC News6 days agoTajikistan's Emergencies Committee says five people have died in the crash-landing of a helicopter carrying climbers in the former Soviet republic. The committee's spokeswoman, Umeda ...
‘Evil is a make-believe concept’: US couple trumpets global goodness on bike trek. ISIS kills them.
TheBlaze2 days agoJay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, both 29, quit their Washington, D.C., jobs a little over a year ago and embarked on a bicycle trip around the world. By April, their journey well underway, Austin ...
Tajikistan’s kandakori – a millennial craft keeps going strong
EurasiaNet2 days agoIn Tajikistan, these artisans are known as kandakori. The most ambitious application of the craft is when large pieces are shaped into finely worked columns and beams for mosques and ...
A Dream Ended on a Mountain Road: The Cyclists and the ISIS Militants
MSN News6 days agoTwo American cyclists had a vision of the world, or, at least, what it could be. The men who mowed them down in Tajikistan had a starkly different one.
