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 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.
Afghan women have prospered during the past two decades thanks to access to education and careers and their government's commitment to women's rights. They now fear those hard-won freedoms, jobs, and opportunities will be sacrificed for the sake of the peace process.
Twenty years after the Taliban blew up two famous Buddha statues, Afghans commemorated their loss at a ceremony in the central Bamiyan Valley on March 9. As part of the commemorations, a lantern-lit procession led to the base of the sandstone cliff where the statues once stood.
Twenty years after the Taliban blew up two famous Buddha statues, Afghans commemorated the tragic loss of their historical and cultural heritage on March 9 at a ceremony in the central Bamiyan valley.
In war-torn Afghanistan, poverty is widespread, and malnutrition affects more than 40 percent of children under 5. The problem is particularly severe in the remote Wakhan district of the country's northeast, where some families say they subsist mainly on bread and tea.
Afghanistan has received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines under the COVAX international vaccine-sharing program, world health and Afghan government officials say.
Being blinded while defusing a bomb that exploded in his face has not prevented a former Afghan police officer from sharing his demining expertise with others.
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