Tajikistan officials on Sunday said they “neutralized” four “terrorists” who crossed over from neighboring Afghanistan in an area where deadly incidents have been on the rise in recent weeks, state media reported. Tajikistan, in Central Asia, shares a mountainous border with Afghanistan and has had tense relations with Kabul’s Taliban authorities. For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.According to Tajik security services cited by the state-owned Khovar news agency, “four terrorists were neutralized” after they refused to put down arms in the southern Khatlon region.Tajik authorities have reported at least five deadly incidents on the mountainous border, which is some 1,350 (840 miles) long, since November. An AFP count using official data found that 16 people have been killed in total. These include Tajik border guards, Chinese workers and what Dushanbe calls “smugglers” and “terrorists.” After attacks on Chinese nationals in November,