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.
At least 19 people were killed and dozens more wounded in a gun and bomb assault on a military hospital in the Afghan capital, the latest deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State (IS) extremist group since the Taliban seized power in August.
More than two dozen LGBT Afghans have arrived in Britain after interventions by Foreign Minister Liz Truss and gay rights organizations to get them out of Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power.
Afghan farmers who are in need of humanitarian aid are being forced by the cash-strapped Taliban regime to pay an Islamic charity tax.
The Taliban's prohibition against women working has severely hit the budgets of many Afghan families whose main breadwinners were educated females, a co-organizer of Afghan women's protests has told RFE/RL's Radio Azadi.
Afghans have accused the Taliban of misappropriating the foreign aid that is trickling into the country. The allegations come amid a devastating humanitarian crisis and economic collapse in Afghanistan.
During a program on RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, a Taliban spokesman was challenged by several Afghans who contradicted his claim that aid was being distributed fairly to those who need it most.
Female activists held a protest in the Afghan capital, Kabul, demanding the right to work and education.
An ethnic Hazara political leader and former member of Afghanistan's parliament says the bodies of eight orphan children who starved to death have been found on the west side of Kabul.
The Taliban is waging a deadly crackdown on members of Afghanistan's small community of Salafists, an ultraradical Islamic sect. The move comes as fighting intensifies between the Taliban and its rival, Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) militants, many of whom are Salafists.
Mursal Kohistani, a student from Parwan province in Afghanistan, spoke to RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi on October 20. In her words, although secondary and high schools are still open for girls, little is happening in them. (RFE/RL's Radio Azadi)
Taliban militants have attacked several journalists covering a Kabul rally by a group of women demanding "work, bread, and education," spurring concerns about the deterioration of the rights situation under Afghanistan’s new rulers.
Ahmad Zia became a water bearer for Afghan soldiers at the age of 12 after the Taliban killed his father and three uncles in 2019. Now his family of 30 does not even have that meager income.
The Taliban's acting interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, a wanted global terrorist and one of the country's most senior officials, has praised suicide attackers and promised their relatives money and land.
Funerals of some of more than 40 victims of a suicide bombing were held in Kandahar on October 16. The attack targeted a crowded Shi’ite mosque in southern Afghanistan during Friday prayers. (Radio Azadi)
A mass funeral was held in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on October 16 for some of more than 40 people killed the previous day when suicide bombers attacked a crowded Shi'ite mosque during Friday Prayers.
A Taliban police chief has been killed and 11 people wounded in a bomb blast in Asadabad, the capital of Kunar Province, in eastern Afghanistan, local authorities say.
Afghanistan classical music traditions are endangered by Taliban bans on singing or playing musical instruments. But groups that perform Taliban-approved “music-less songs” are proliferating.
The Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) militant group has intensified its attacks against the Taliban, its rival, since the latter seized power in Afghanistan. Experts say the escalating violence between the two militant outfits marks the start of a new phase in the country’s decades-old conflict.
Nimroz Province in Afghanistan's southwest is located on major drug trafficking routes to Iran and Pakistan. Since the Taliban's return to power in August, three drug rehab centers in Nimroz have closed due to a lack of funding while users fend for themselves on the streets.
Marzia Babakarkhil, an Afghan judge, spoke to RFE/RL's Radio Azadi on October 10 about the dangers women judges face in Afghanistan as the Taliban do not acknowledge women in the role of a judge. (RFE/RL's Radio Azadi)
Load more
