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.
Thousands of Afghans are escaping abroad every day as the Taliban wages a blistering military offensive amid the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country.
As the Taliban expands its reach across Afghanistan, the militants have taken control of nearly all of Farah Province, which borders Iran in the country's southwest. Families who have fled the fighting describe seeing their homes destroyed by bombs or being forced to give up the last of their food.
Traders near the so-called Durand Line that separates Afghanistan and Pakistan are severely impacted by escalating fighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces. But there also are many other major obstacles to a full resumption of cross-border traffic.
Homaira Nawrozi, 23, is a teacher in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan's embattled Helmand Province. She wanted to give other Afghans a chance to learn outside of the classroom, so she opened her own small library where anyone can visit, read, and learn.
With Afghanistan facing a wave of coronavirus infections, oxygen is in short supply at the country's underfunded hospitals. To help meet the demand, faculty and students at Kabul Medical University have built an oxygen-concentrating machine that pulls the vital gas from the air.
For many Afghans, doubts about the peace process with the Taliban are growing as Islamist militants capture more territory across the country. And anxieties in the capital, Kabul, rose as at least three rockets exploded near the presidential palace on July 20.
Afghan officials say at least three rockets have landed in the center of Kabul shortly before President Ashraf Ghani was to give an address to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
The United States will bring a first group of Afghans who worked with the U.S. government to a military base in Virginia until their visas are finalized.
U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has met with political and military leaders in Pakistan amid a further worsening in relations between Kabul and Islamabad.
The Taliban's blistering military offensive has displaced tens of thousands of people across Afghanistan in recent months, with aid agencies warning of a looming humanitarian disaster.
More than a dozen diplomatic missions in Afghanistan have called for "an urgent end" to the Taliban's military offensives across the war-torn country, saying they are at odds with claims the militant group wants a negotiated settlement to end the conflict.
Representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban have failed to make significant progress in the latest round of Doha talks but agreed to meet again.
The body of Reuters’ award-winning journalist Danish Siddiqui was transported to a hospital in Kandahar on July 17. (Radio Azadi)
As Taliban militants impose restrictions on newly seized territory, Radio Azadi journalists say freedom of expression must be preserved.
The Taliban has proposed a three-month cease-fire in exchange for the release of 7,000 of its fighters, an Afghan government negotiator said, as the militant group captured a key border crossing with Pakistan in a sweeping offensive ahead of the August 31 deadline for the pullout of U.S. forces.
The Taliban has released a female member of Khost Provincial Council after she and her children were abducted for a day.
Why are rural districts in northern Afghanistan that opposed the Taliban sweeping to power in the 1990s now falling like a house of cards to the hard-line Islamist movement?
Fighting between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants broke out in the southern city of Kandahar on July 9, leaving at least 18 people dead and more than 100 wounded. Government troops say the militants have seized homes in residential neighborhoods, forcing civilians to flee.
Kabul has requested that European countries halt the compulsory deportation of Afghan asylum seekers for the next three months due to increased Taliban violence and a rise in coronavirus infections in Afghanistan.
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