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.
Merman Radio, a female-led station in the Afghan city of Kandahar, has received the 2020 Prize for Impact from press-freedom group Reporters Without Borders. The broadcasters won praise for their programs on issues that affect Afghan women.
Mourners attended the funeral of Afghan television journalist Malala Maiwand after she and her driver were killed by unidentified assailants in the eastern province of Nangarhar. The attack took place early on December 10 in the provincial capital, Jalalabad.
Iran and Afghanistan have officially inaugurated their first railway link, an achievement the two countries’ presidents said would help enhance trade across the region.
A female journalist for a private Afghan television station has been slain by unidentified assailants in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
A factory in the Afghan city of Herat recycles plastic waste into filler material for insulation, pillows, and even clothing. Employing some 300 people, the factory plays an important economic role in the city as well as an environmental one.
Afghan government and Taliban representatives said on December 2 they had reached a preliminary deal to press on with peace talks, their first written agreement in 19 years of war and welcomed by the United States as a chance to halt the violence.
Jamila is 35 years old, a mother of six, and says her drug-dealing husband got her addicted to heroin. In the southern Afghan city of Kandahar where she lives, there are an estimated 300,000 drug addicts and only one treatment center that offers no places for women.
Afghan forces have killed a member of the Taliban whom Kabul says was the mastermind of a suicide car-bombing that left at least 30 security personnel dead.
At least 30 Afghan security personnel have been killed by a suicide car-bomb attack at an army base in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Ghazni, officials say.
Two explosions in the central Afghan province of Bamiyan have killed at least 14 people and wounded 45.
The international community has renewed aid pledges worth billions of dollars for Afghanistan for another four years but conditioned the funds on upholding human rights in the war-torn country amid faltering peace talks with the Taliban.
Police in Afghanistan say several rockets hit residential areas of Kabul during the morning rush hour on November 21, killing at least three civilians and wounding about a dozen more.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has arrived in Kabul for talks with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani amid stalled peace negotiations between the Afghan government and Taliban representatives and an uptick in violence.
Thousands of opposition activists gathered in the Pakistani city of Swat on November 13. Maryam Nawaz Sharif, the daughter of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and other opposition leaders addressed the crowd to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
As Afghan government and Taliban negotiators try to broker a peace deal in Doha, RFE/RL's Gandhara is asking Afghans: "What's at stake for you in the Afghan peace talks?" For entrepreneur and activist Nilofar Ayoubi, it's the freedom to work and build a career as a businesswoman.
RFE/RL journalist Mohammad Ilyas Dayee was killed in the southern Afghan province of Helmand when a bomb attached to his vehicle exploded early on November 12.
The first-ever female driving courses have begun in Afghanistan's northern Faryab Province.
Kabul dentist Ghazal Sharifi Mayel says Afghan peace talks need to protect career choices for women.
The Kabul bureau chief for RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan, Sami Mahdi, has paid tribute to 16 of his students who were killed in an attack on Kabul University on November 2. At least 22 people -- most of them students -- died after three gunmen stormed the campus.
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