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.
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.
Afghan officials say a female doctor died in a bomb blast in the eastern city of Jalalabad in what appeared to be another targeted killing in the war-torn country.
The United States has proposed convening a United Nations-sponsored international conference on Afghanistan, a senior U.S. State Department official said.
Three young women working for a TV station in the Afghan city of Jalalabad have been shot dead. Islamic State militants claimed responsibility, but the local police chief says an arrested suspect was a Taliban member. In December, a female journalist from the same TV station was also killed.
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a Kabul University professor and religious scholar in the Afghan capital, a day after three female employees of a television channel were gunned down in the east of the war-torn country.
Three female employees of an Afghan television channel have been killed in two separate attacks in the eastern Nangarhar Province on March 2. (Radio Free Afghanistan)
Members of Afghanistan's Jogi minority are not counted as citizens, which means they have no rights to receive an education, vote, or own property. But activists in northern Jowzjan Province have succeeded in bringing about a first step toward change: a school for both children and adults.
Three female employees of an Afghan television channel have been killed in two separate attacks in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
A Pakistani court has granted bail to a Christian man imprisoned for more than four years on alleged blasphemy offenses committed while a teenager.
A U.S. government watchdog says the United States has wasted about $2.4 billion on assets such as buildings and vehicles that were either unused or abandoned, had not been used for their intended purposes, had deteriorated, or were destroyed.
The U.S. envoy for the Afghan peace process, Zalmay Khalilzad, was back in Kabul on March 1 for talks with Afghan officials over ways to accelerate the peace process aimed at putting an end to decades of war, before heading to Qatar, where negotiations with Taliban representatives are ongoing.
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) says that a Taliban commander killed three family members of a slain journalist in the central province of Ghor.
The Taliban has told its members to avoid recruiting or harboring foreign fighters amid doubts about the militants' commitment to a deal reached with the United States last year that provided for severing links to terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda.
Afghanistan has begun its COVID-19 vaccination campaign, initially inoculating security force members, healthcare workers, and journalists as the country tries to navigate the coronavirus pandemic amid a sharp rise in violence.
Peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government have resumed in Qatar after a delay of more than a month amid escalating violence in the war-wracked country as the United Nations called again for an immediate cease-fire to curb civilian casualties.
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