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.
In parts of Afghanistan, a custom known as "bacha posh" allows parents to dress their daughters as boys to give them temporary access to education or work. Hukmina decided to keep wearing men's clothing throughout her life, and this has afforded her freedoms that few other women enjoy.
Abdul Manan Niazi, deputy head of a breakaway Taliban faction in Afghanistan, has died in a Kabul hospital of wounds sustained in a shooting earlier this week by unknown gunmen in Herat Province.
Afghan officials say a blast at a mosque in a northern Kabul neighborhood killed at least 12 worshippers on the second day of a cease-fire declared by the government and the Taliban.
Four separate bomb attacks have killed at least 11 civilians and wounded 13 others just hours after a three-day cease-fire took effect as Afghanistan celebrates the Eid al-Fitr festival marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban have halted in recent weeks as extremists launched a new wave of attacks. But two former combatants say they're still holding out hope for the peace process and an eventual end to the conflict.
Taliban fighters have captured Afghanistan's second-biggest dam and two Afghan Army bases, militants and officials said, as fighting escalates amid the ongoing pullout of U.S. and international forces from the war-wracked country.
Afghan officials say Taliban militants captured a district in northern Afghanistan after hours of fighting with government forces amid a recent surge in violence as the United States begins to pull its forces from the war-torn country.
Afghan officials say heavy rains and flash floods have hit a number of provinces across the country, claiming at least 37 lives and destroying hundreds of homes.
On May 12, 2020, gunmen stormed the maternity ward of a Kabul hospital, killing and wounding dozens. Amena Sharifi suffered a gunshot wound just hours after birth, and her mother was killed. But one year and two operations later, Amena is ready to begin walking like any toddler.
At least 15 Afghan government soldiers have been killed in Taliban attacks in two provinces as violence continues to rise while negotiations between the two sides aimed at ending a 20-year conflict stall.
The Afghan Defense Ministry says that more than 100 militants were killed in fighting between government forces and the Taliban over the past two days.
The United States and NATO officially began withdrawing their last troops from Afghanistan on May 1, leaving the war-torn country to an uncertain future amid raging violence in the absence of a peace deal.
Afghans have received enormous economic benefits from the international military presence since it arrived in 2001. But with foreign forces departing by September, many expect to feel the financial bite.
A huge car-bomb explosion in Afghanistan's eastern province of Logar killed at least 26 people on April 30, officials said.
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.
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