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.
Family members say Sundar Singh's love for Afghanistan kept him in Kabul, where he was killed during an attack on a Sikh temple by the IS-K militant group. Members of Afghanistan's tiny Sikh community have been the target of several deadly attacks in recent years, forcing many to flee abroad.
Taliban officials have begun destroying marijuana and opium crops after Afghanistan's Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada ordered a ban on cultivating the crops in April. Afghanistan is the world's biggest opium producer.
At least two people are dead and 28 others wounded after an explosion ripped through a market in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.
A regional affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) militant group has claimed responsibility for an attack at a Sikh temple in the Afghan capital on June 18 that killed at least two people and injured seven.
The Taliban has ordered Afghan bodybuilders to cover up their bodies during training and competitions, a move that has been criticized by athletes. The Taliban order is the latest attempt to control the appearances of Afghans, both men and women, in public.
Afghans are being hit hard by an economic crisis that has disrupted essential services and left them struggling to make ends meet. But the country's Taliban leaders, limited to domestic revenue to fund the annual budget, are finding ways to squeeze citizens even more.
Afghans seeking medical treatment or escaping threats in their country say their efforts to enter Pakistan are complicated by a thriving black market for visas. Amid reports that visas are being sold for exorbitant prices, the Pakistani embassy has fired 12 staff members over bribery accusations.
The Taliban has detained a popular Afghan YouTuber and three of his colleagues for allegedly "insulting Islam" in one of their videos.
The Taliban has been accused of forcibly evicting hundreds of people from their homes in the northern province of Baghlan, the scene of deadly clashes between the militants and resistance forces.
An Afghan protester told RFE/RL's Radio Azadi on May 26 that she's not afraid to give her life to defend the rights of women and young girls in the country. Her comments came after female protesters took to the streets of Kabul to demand the Taliban allow education and jobs for women.
While Afghanistan's Taliban leadership has banned the transit of undocumented migrants across the border to Pakistan and Iran, it's nothing smugglers cannot overcome by greasing the palms of Taliban border guards and others along the way.
The Taliban recently ordered Afghan women to cover their faces in public and has said it would punish the male relatives of any woman who fails to do so. Women who spoke to RFE/RL's Radio Azadi said their male relatives have stopped them from leaving home, where they are exposed to increasing abuse.
A group of women have staged a protest in Kabul against the continued closure of schools for girls above the sixth grade as a senior UN official has warned the Taliban's restrictions on women's rights are aimed at making women "invisible."
The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan says four bomb blasts in Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif have killed and injured more than a dozen people.
Dozens of male Afghan journalists and others have joined a social media campaign against a Taliban decree forcing female journalists to cover their faces on air.
Since the Taliban seized power, two Iranian dissidents have allegedly been arrested and another mysteriously killed in Afghanistan. Rights groups say the incidents follow a familiar pattern of arbitrary arrests.
Islamic State-Khorasan militants have carried out two deadly attacks on the Sufi community in Afghanistan in recent weeks. The Sufis, who follow a mystical and moderate form of Islam, are seen as heretics by extremist Islamist groups. Sufis say they are now too afraid to worship in their mosques.
Residents of Afghanistan's Panjshir Province have told RFE/RL's Radio Azadi that the arrival of Taliban fighters to counter growing unrest and fighting by resistance forces has led to hardships for civilians, including killings, torture, and beatings.
A few dozen women braved threats by the Taliban and took to the streets of Kabul on May 10 to voice their discontent over a requirement to cover their faces in public. The order came on May 7 and calls for women to wear head-to-toe coverings and only show their eyes.
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