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.
An Afghan media watchdog has urged the government to take note of a demand for more media freedoms after numerous local media outlets issued a joint statement denouncing the "deterioration" of access to government-related information in the country.
Dozens of Afghan media outlets have joined their voices to denounce the "deterioration" of access to government-related information in the country.
Thousands of protesters have gathered in Pakistani and Afghan cities and towns to voice anger over the detention of an ethnic Pashtun rights activist in Pakistan.
Helicopter-borne U.S. forces have recovered the remains of two personnel killed when a military communications aircraft went down in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan's Ghazni Province, the Pentagon has confirmed.
At least seven Afghan police officers have been killed in a January 28 attack by Taliban militants on a police station in the northern province of Baghlan, officials say.
Local residents near the site of where a U.S. military aircraft in Afghanistan crashed said they did not believe claims that Taliban militants had shot down the plane.
Designers and models recently held what they described as a first for Afghanistan: an outdoor fashion show in the capital, Kabul. The event featured traditional Afghan styles, but still attracted criticism from conservatives.
A baby girl, just 1 month old, has lost both legs in an attack by an unknown gunman in Afghanistan's Faryab Province that also killed six members of the girl's family. Afghan authorities said the Taliban was to blame, but the militant group has denied responsibility. Warning: Disturbing images.
An American military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on January 27, the U.S. military and the NATO-led force in the country said, adding that there were no indications so far it had been brought down by enemy fire.
Afghan officials in the northern province of Balkh said at least seven civilians were killed in air strikes, prompting protests in front of the district governor's office.
Billboards have gone up in the Afghan city of Herat saying a woman without hijab is a "disgrace to her man." They have sparked a fierce debate.
A U.S. drone strike earlier this month in the western Afghan province of Herat that apparently targeted a militant group also killed at least 10 civilians, including three women and three children, an Afghan rights official and a council member said on January 22.
The Taliban has killed six members of the same family, including an infant girl, in a remote village in the country's north, Afghan officials say.
A representative of the Taliban says a second day of meetings between the group and a U.S. negotiating team led by Zalmay Khalilzad has been held in Qatar.
Thousands of Afghan families displaced by violence elsewhere in their country are struggling to survive extreme winter temperatures in the slums of Kabul.
Two children have been killed and at least eight other people wounded after two bombs went off near-simultaneously in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, officials say.
Nineteen people have been reported killed as a result of extreme winter weather in parts of Afghanistan, officials said.
Two Afghan Air Force pilots have been killed after their helicopter crashed in the western province of Farah, the Defense Ministry says.
An explosion during the morning rush hour in the northern Afghan province of Balkh has killed a local resident and wounded at least two others, police said, adding the victims were civilians.
Asif Jalali, a well-known Afghan TV actor who gained renown for his political satire and stand-up comedy, has died in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
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