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 has ordered secondary girls schools in Afghanistan to shut March 23 just hours after they reopened, saying they would remain closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with Islamic law for them to reopen.
Afghanistan is taking hits from all sides -- hunger, economic destruction, and the mass displacement of people. Now the country is dealing with a major outbreak of a persistent disease, measles, that thrives in such an environment and inordinately threatens malnourished children.
Hundreds of former Afghan government judges from 34 provinces who had been removed and replaced by the Taliban have filed suit to regain their jobs.
More than 13,700 newborns have died this year in Afghanistan from malnutrition and hunger-related diseases, a figure that Human Rights Watch (HRW) says indicates that "time is running out for children" amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.
Since seizing power in Afghanistan, the Taliban has resurrected strict gender segregation, a hallmark of its previous rule. The militant group first enforced segregation at public universities. Now it has been extended to public transport and government ministries.
The Taliban vowed to adhere to human rights standards when it seized power in mid-August 2021. But examples of blatant rights violations, including extrajudicial killings and torture, continue to emerge.
More than 80,000 at-risk Afghans were evacuated by the United States when the Taliban returned to power in Kabul, but roughly the same number have been left behind. With the world's attention turning to war in Europe, volunteer groups of U.S. veterans are working to get their Afghan partners out.
An hourlong gun battle erupted between the Taliban and Iranian border guards in the frontier area of Afghanistan's Nimroz Province, local sources told RFE/RL's Radio Azadi.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Afghanistan's Taliban rulers of stepping up censorship and violence against media workers outside the capital, Kabul, since taking over the war-wracked country in August.
Eight members of polio vaccination teams were killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, the United Nations said on February 24.
Two people were killed and 13 others wounded in a clash between Afghan Taliban and Pakistani forces in the southern Afghan border town of Spin Boldak, health officials in Kandahar told RFE/RL's Radio Azadi on February 24.
A video of confessions by several Afghan women who had gone missing in Kabul has led to anger and accusations that the Taliban pressured the women to say they had been encouraged to demonstrate for their rights by activists based outside the country.
Afghanistan's once-thriving beauty salons are now struggling to survive. Business owners and customers say their country's failing economy and the pervasive fear of persecution and restrictions from the ruling Taliban are causing most beauticians to close or make do with fewer customers.
A man accused of adultery has been publicly whipped by the Taliban in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan Province.
Six months after the Taliban seized power, many Afghans are losing hope of a turn for the better. Already burdened by an economic and humanitarian crisis compounded by drought and a chaotic transition of power, Afghans are still waiting for the Taliban to deliver on promises.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on U.S. President Joe Biden to reverse his decision to split $7 billion of frozen Afghan funds between victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and humanitarian aid.
In a call-in program broadcast by RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi, a shopkeeper who chose to remain anonymous said on February 8 that the only thing that keeps it open are Taliban enforcers, who demand traders keep their shops open and stocked even though business is virtually gone.
The Taliban says at least one person was killed and eight others wounded in a bomb explosion at a mosque in northern Afghanistan.
Friends and relatives of Afghan female activist Tamana Paryani say she and her three sisters Shafiqa, Zarghona, and Karima were arrested on January 19 by the Taliban after they took part in a Kabul protest.
Two local journalists from popular Afghan private television network Ariana have been detained by Taliban forces in Kabul for unknown reasons, according to their colleagues and family members.
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