1.   Opposition militants boycotting upcoming presidential elections vowed to go ahead with a political rally Tuesday, despite a government ban on the gathering, an opposition official said.

2.   Opposition militants hauled teachers and children out of schools, the reporter said.

3.   Opposition militants later stoned his house and torched his car, forcing him to move into a ruling party property in another suburb.

4.   Radical opposition militants are frequently attacking Russian soldiers in the Tajik capital, and some attacks have targeted ethnic Russian civilians as well.

5.   Police stormed the headquarters of the Convention of Democratic Unity party on Wednesday and arrested six opposition militants after allegedly finding weapons and munitions in a false ceiling.

6.   A Tajik soldier was killed and seven injured in a gunbattle with opposition militants, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Friday.

7.   Amnesty said both security forces and opposition militants had committed similar crimes and were reported to have killed hundreds of civilians.

8.   But he added there was no indication they were Palestinian police or were acting on orders, and noted they might have been opposition militants.

9.   But the Russians said the victims were opposition militants, according to the Interfax news agency.

10.   Despite mounting efforts to reach peace, Muslim opposition militants are frequently attacking Russian soldiers in Dushanbe.