RFE/RL's Radio Azadi is one of the most popular and trusted media outlets in Afghanistan. Nearly half of the country's adult audience accesses Azadi's reporting on a weekly basis.
Afghanistan’s de-facto Taliban rulers said they have reached agreement with visiting US officials on an exchange of prisoners, although no details were given and Washington has not yet confirmed that a deal has been struck.
Hamidullah weeps amid the ruins of his family home in Afghanistan that was destroyed by a massive earthquake. The teen is the sole survivor in his family from the August 31 tremor. He and his neighbors have pulled the bodies of his parents, five sisters, and two brothers from the rubble.
A teenager from Afghanistan's Kunar Province tells RFE/RL's Radio Azadi how he returned from work in the city of Jalalabad to find his parents, five sisters, and two brothers dead, and his home destroyed.
Sola lost eight members of her family, including all her male relatives, in Afghanistan’s worst earthquake in years.
The death toll in a massive earthquake in Afghanistan last week has been nearly doubled to 2,205 as rescue workers continue to trickle into the remote mountainous area flattened by the disaster.
Wazir Khan lost 10 members of his family in the deadly earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan on August 31.
Families in eastern Afghanistan continue to recover their dead after an earthquake struck on August 31, killing more than 1,400 people. RFE/RL's Radio Azadi spoke to a man in Kunar Province who lost 10 family members. He and fellow survivors are sheltering under tents near their destroyed homes.
Dozens of Afghan commandos are being airdropped into a remote mountainous region along the eastern border with Pakistan to help in the race to rescue victims of an earthquake late last week that has claimed the lives of more than 1,400 people, according to Taliban authorities.
A massive earthquake this week that killed more than 1,400 people in Afghanistan has left women, already struggling under the strict rules of the Taliban-led government, vulnerable because of a lack of support.
An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan leveled entire villages, residents told RFE/RL, leaving survivors to sleep outside. Over 1,400 people have died, as neighbors and aid workers race against time to save lives.
More than 1,400 people are reported dead and thousands of others injured as aid workers continue to battle to get to a remote mountainous region of Afghanistan following a devastating earthquake that flattened villages.
Hundreds of people are reported dead after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan near the city of Jalalabad close to the Pakistan border on August 31. Taliban authorities said at least 800 people have been killed and 2,500 injured.
Aid workers are racing to a remote area of Afghanistan with emergency, food, and medical supplies following an earthquake that flattened villages and killed hundreds of people.
Afghanistan’s Taliban recently suspended chess over concerns that it encourages gambling, which is banned in Islam, a move that takes away yet another activity from the country's population.
Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have left Iran over the past weeks since Tehran gave more than four million undocumented Afghan migrants until July 6 to leave the country, the United Nations said, raising alarm over a dire shortage of funding to assist the returnees.
Russia announced on July 3 that it officially recognizes the Taliban government of Afghanistan, making it the first country in the world to grant recognition since the group seized power in 2021.
Every day, the lack of reliable medical testing facilities forces hundreds of Afghans to seek treatment abroad for diseases that are easily detected in clinical laboratories in neighboring countries.
Thousands of Afghans remain stranded in refugee centers across the Middle East, caught in a web of uncertainty after the Trump travel ban targeting 12 countries, including Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban rulers have detained several Islamic clerics. Most of those incarcerated have publicly criticized the Taliban government or offered advice on how to change or improve vital policies.
The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) on has expressed alarm over a sharp rise in the number of Afghan families being deported from Iran, reporting that 15,675 people crossed the border in May -- more than double the figure recorded in April.
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