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.
RFE/RL correspondent Mohammad Ilyas Dayee was known for his intrepid reporting in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. In November 2020, he was killed by a bomb attached to his car. It was just one of many targeted attacks in the past year that have silenced vital voices in Afghanistan's embattled media.
An Afghan provincial governor says 16 people, mostly young boys and teenagers, were wounded after a rocket landed in his office compound in the eastern province of Kunar.
At least 15 people were killed when a truck and passenger bus collided in Afghanistan’s southern province of Zabul.
Driven by poverty, people in Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province are risking their lives to illegally mine gold in the mountains.
At least 10 members of the Afghan security forces were killed in two Taliban attacks in the country's north, local officials and the army said on April 13.
The Taliban claims it has changed since its early years in power in Afghanistan 25 years ago. But Afghans living under Taliban rule in recent years say the militant group still imposes many of its draconian laws and brutal policies that defined its 1996-2001 rule.
The Taliban says it is not ready to participate in an international peace conference on Afghanistan tentatively scheduled to begin in Turkey on April 16.
Afghan nomads commonly known as Kuchis have traversed their country and the surrounding regions for centuries. But their unique wandering lifestyle is vanishing as members of the group are forced to settle and give up their livestock.
An Afghan official says a female police officer has been gunned down in the eastern city of Jalalabad, the latest reported killing targeting women in the provincial capital.
Afghanistan’s Tatar community has been largely forgotten over the centuries. But now, the Turkic-speaking ethnic group is gaining greater recognition in the war-torn country.
Afghan officials say unknown gunmen have killed three female polio vaccination health workers in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
There is a risk that Afghanistan’s non-Muslim minorities, many of whose members fled during the tumultuous decades following the 1978 communist coup, could vanish completely if peace does not follow the departure of international troops this year.
Radio Women’s Tune, a local station based in southwestern Afghanistan, was launched on International Women's Day. Amid an ongoing wave of violence against journalists in the country, 10 female staff members are using their broadcasts to support peace efforts and promote women's rights.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on March 21 just weeks before Washington is due to withdraw the last of its troops under a deal struck with the Taliban last year.
In March 2001, Taliban extremists used dynamite and artillery to demolish two towering Buddha statues that had stood in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province for nearly 1,500 years. Today, the country is still not at peace, and hopes of rebuilding the statues are stymied by prohibitive costs.
Afghan officials say at least three people were killed and 11 wounded when a roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying government employees in Kabul on March 18.
The United States, Russia, China, and Pakistan have jointly called on Afghanistan's warring sides to reach an immediate cease-fire just six weeks before a deadline for the United States to pull out troops who have been in the country for nearly 20 years.
U.S. President Joe Biden has warned that a deadline set out in a deal his predecessor, Donald Trump, made with the Taliban to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by May 1 "could happen, but it is tough."
Millions of farmers across Afghanistan are scrambling to deal with the devastating impact of an ongoing drought, which comes amid uncertainty over their country's political future.
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