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.
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.
The deputy head of the United Nations aid office in Afghanistan has called for the Taliban to immediately lift bans on women attending university and working for nongovernmental organizations after a meeting with the Taliban-led government's minister of higher education.
Impoverished Afghans are reeling from a decision by major international aid agencies to suspend their operations in Afghanistan in response to the Taliban's ban on Afghan women working for NGOs. Afghans have been cut off from critical assistance, including food aid.
In the past year, the Taliban has imposed sweeping restrictions on women's appearances, freedom of movement, and their right to work and receive an education. Afghan women say the militant group has effectively erased them from public life, in a move reminiscent of its brutal regime of the 1990s.
Women across Afghanistan continue to oppose recent bans by the Taliban on education and employment opportunities for females. Male professors and university students have also protested against the increased restrictions on women in higher education.
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities say that several people were killed or injured in an explosion on the morning of January 1 at a military airport adjacent to Kabul International Airport.
Hundreds of Afghan men are publicly voicing their opposition to the Taliban's decision to ban women from universities. The rare show of support from men in the deeply patriarchal society speaks volumes about public discontent with the Taliban's draconian steps against women and girls.
Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) developed countries and several other Western democracies on December 29 called on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to "urgently reverse" a ban on women working in the war-wracked country's aid sector.
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