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.
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.
Afghans have been returning to their ruined homes in Nangarhar Province after officials claimed they had cleared it of remaining Islamic State fighters and showed captured militants to the media. RFE/RL met one family who returned to find their house destroyed, their crops stolen, and the land around them mined.
At least three Afghan police officers have been killed in an attack in the western city of Herat, officials say.
At least one member of an Afghan militia has shot dead nine of his fellow militiamen in what the Interior Ministry is calling an insider attack.
Ten people, including four women and a child, were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on December 13.
Two Taliban suicide car-bomb blasts killed one person and wounded more than 90 others, including five Georgian soldiers, on December 11 on the main U.S. military base of Bagram in Afghanistan, local and NATO officials said.
A Japanese aid worker who devoted his career to improving the lives of Afghans has died following an attack in eastern Afghanistan that killed five other people.
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