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.
The Taliban governor of Afghanistan's Balkh Province was killed in a blast at his office on March 9, officials said.
Afghan musician Farida Tarana's new song, Group Sex, in which she criticizes polygamy and Taliban restrictions on women, has caused an uproar in Afghanistan since it was released three months ago. She told RFE/RL's Radio Azadi she's only just getting started.
Latifa Naziri is the only female dentist in Firozkoh, the capital of Afghanistan's central Ghor Province. Her dental clinic just opened its doors in January but already sees dozens of patients every day. They say her success is a breakthrough that gives other women hope.
Beekeeping made great strides in Afghanistan as an agricultural product that provided entrepreneurial opportunities and boosted food security. But while production has risen, incomes have fallen, leaving farmers with a glut of honey they can’t sell in the face of competition from cheap imports.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on February 28 that a senior member of the Islamic State (IS) militant group was killed by Taliban security forces.
Samira Mohammadi's restaurant in the Afghan capital, Kabul, is run exclusively by and for women. It serves as a rare safe space in a society where the Taliban has been restricting basic freedoms for women since coming to power in 2021.
The Taliban reopened the Torkham border crossing with Pakistan on February 23 after four days in which thousands of trucks carrying supplies into landlocked Afghanistan remained stuck at the border.
A U.S. court has ruled that families of the victims of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks are not entitled to access $3.5 billion of frozen Afghan funds being held in the United States.
A growing number of Afghans are turning to the booming crystal-meth industry to earn a living amid a major humanitarian and economic crisis that has pushed millions of people toward starvation.
Kabul's iconic Flower Street used to blossom with red roses and sweetheart kitsch every February 14 as romance-minded Afghans put their affections on public display on Valentine's Day. But with the Taliban's return to power, the foreign custom is no longer getting much love.
After 30 years in business, Gul Rahman says he may have to close his Kabul butcher's shop. The economic collapse since the Taliban regained control in Afghanistan has seen demand for meat collapse.
RFE/RL President Jamie Fly has said that Radio Azadi has come back “stronger than ever” with expanded programming despite the Taliban’s efforts to ban the company’s Afghan news service from the airwaves and the Internet.
A man who wheeled books around Kabul and gave them out for free in response to a Taliban ban on higher education for girls and women was arrested on February 2. The day before, RFE/RL interviewed him as he made his rounds through the Afghan capital.
The severe cold that arrived in Afghanistan two weeks ago has been brutal and deadly, and has compounded the already dire humanitarian crises faced by Afghans around the country.
Several international groups say they are returning to Afghanistan -- mired in one of the planet's worst humanitarian crises -- to administer aid after receiving assurances from Taliban officials that female workers would be allowed to carry out their duties.
A former female member of Afghanistan’s now disbanded lower house of parliament has been shot dead during a break-in at her home in the Afghan capital, Taliban officials have confirmed.
Huddled crowds of drug addicts in Afghanistan's southwestern Nimroz Province illustrate the country's growing opium and heroin crisis. International aid for fighting addiction has dried up since the Taliban seized power in 2021.
The regional affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for an explosion that ripped through the Afghan capital near the entrance to the Foreign Ministry building, killing at least 10 people and wounding 53.
The intergovernmental Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) executive committee is gathering for an emergency meeting in the Saudi port city of Jeddah to discuss recent developments in Afghanistan and the humanitarian situation there under the Taliban-led government.
Many people in Afghanistan's central province of Daikundi are struggling to heat their homes this winter. Coal is one of the most common fuels but has become hard to find in the provincial capital, Nili. High taxes and transport costs are some of the main causes for the rising fuel prices.
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