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.
Reporters Without Border (RSF) has called for the completion of an investigation into the 2020 killing of RFE/RL Afghan service reporter Mohammad Ilyas Dayee.
The director of a 1,000-bed rehabilitation center for drug addicts in Kabul says they don't have enough basic food, medicine, and clothes for patients. Many rehabilitation centers have closed since international charities cut or reduced funding after the Taliban returned to power in August 2021.
The Taliban authorities in the western province of Herat have prohibited the sale of animal testicles, saying the practice of consuming the delicacy is un-Islamic. But locals say the order is damaging to businesses and unnecessary, considering the bigger issues the country is facing.
Women in Kabul are experiencing new hurdles to enjoying even the simplest pleasures, like taking a bath or spending a day at the amusement park with their kids.
The Taliban has cracked down on universities in Afghanistan in recent weeks. University campuses have become a hotbed of anti-Taliban protests led by female students. In the latest incident, the Taliban beat a group of women who held a rally outside their university in Badakhshan Province.
The Taliban-led Afghan government says Afghanistan faces difficulties related to climate change and development assistance from the international community is needed to reduce the negative effects.
Two gay Afghan men have told RFE/RL they live in constant fear under Taliban rule and have to meet their partners in secret. In a January report, Human Rights Watch found LGBT people in Afghanistan faced a"desperate situation and grave threats to their safety."
The United Nations human rights office has voiced concern over the detention of five people after the Taliban disrupted a press conference in Kabul intended to launch a new women's movement.
Since the Taliban retook power in August 2021, the Afghan economy has gone into freefall. Even the banknotes themselves are falling to pieces, with no new banknotes issued since the militant group's takeover.
An explosion hit a bus carrying Taliban administration employees in Kabul early on November 2, police said, wounding seven people.
Teachers have set up a secret education center in a poor neighborhood of the Afghan capital, Kabul, to teach female students aged 11 and above. The Taliban closed most secondary schools for girls after taking power in August 2021, and the militant group has not said when they will reopen.
Smoking shisha had become a popular pastime among men in Afghanistan in recent years. But the Taliban has issued a fatwa, or Islamic decree, banning hookahs. The owners of shisha cafes say the move will bankrupt them.
A new, female-only library in Kabul has become an educational oasis for Afghan girls and women who have been denied access to further learning.
The Taliban has allowed girls who were in the last year of school to take university entrance exams. But the militant group has banned them from applying for many courses, including journalism, engineering, and economics.
Nearly 60 people, mostly girls and women, were killed when a suicide bombing ripped through an education center in Kabul on September 30. Among the victims were 18-year-olds Marzia and Hajar, childhood friends who were taking practice exams in preparation for university.
In Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, the Taliban is conducting inspections of girls' schools and expelling students who are 13 or over. The move is part of the Taliban's enforcement of its ban on pubescent girls attending school.
Afghan women have staged protests in major cities across the country in the largest demonstrations against Taliban rule in months. They have protested the Taliban's ban on girls' education and the inability of its government to protect religious minorities, despite mounting Taliban violence.
Several dozen Afghans, mostly women, protested on October 1, one day after a suicide bombing killed dozens of mostly female students preparing for university entrance exams in Kabul. Most of the victims were from the minority Hazara community.
Several dozen Afghans, mostly women, have protested after a suicide bombing killed dozens of mostly female students preparing for university entrance exams in Kabul.
A suicide bomber struck a packed education center in the Afghan capital on September 30, as students worked on a practice university entrance exam.
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