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.
In 2014, Taliban militants kidnapped 25-year-old Reza Khoshnood Khurami and cut off parts of two of his fingers that were stained with ink from a polling station. This September, Khurami went to vote again, determined not to be intimidated by the brutal attack.
A Taliban attack on a district headquarters in Afghanistan's northern Balkh Province has killed at least 11 police officers, Afghan officials say.
Some clerics say the Koran forbids tattoos, but that hasn't stopped a growing number of young people in Kabul from getting inked. One tattoo artist says the trend actually has roots in Afghan tradition.
Afghan voters headed to the polls on September 28 to elect a new president, with some voting for the first time. Among them was 18-year-old Khatera, who said she hoped her vote will bring a better future for Afghanistan.
Afghans headed to the polls on September 28 to elect a new president, amid reports of attacks at polling stations.
Polls have closed in Afghanistan's presidential election with voting marred by several attacks and reports of problems at polling stations.
Young Afghans raised after the end of Taliban rule in Afghanistan in 2001 are getting a first chance to vote in presidential elections taking place on September 28. An international footballer and a cyclist, both 18, told RFE/RL about their hopes for the election and for the future.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says his country needs "one president, not two," telling RFE/RL that if he wins a presidential election on September 28 he won't accept another national unity government.
As Afghan citizens vote for president on September 28 from a list of 15 candidates, analysts say the race is likely to be between the current president, Ashraf Ghani, and the country's chief executive, Abdullah Abdullah.
Afghan children hunt for human hair in garbage dumps and then sell it to be turned into wigs and hair extensions.
Provincial officials say at least 35 civilians were killed and 13 were wounded in an attack conducted by the Afghan military in southern Helmand Province.
Afghan authorities say Taliban militants have suffered heavy casualties in the latest security operations in several provinces across the country.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has promised to take steps to prevent civilian casualties in the war against militants, a day after at least 30 civilians were killed in a U.S. drone strike in eastern Nangarhar Province.
At least 50 people have been killed in an air strike and a car bombing in Afghanistan, as U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad prepares to brief U.S. lawmakers on his peace talks with the Taliban.
A four-member Taliban delegation has traveled to Tehran for talks with high-ranking Iranian officials.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has condemned two Taliban attacks that killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in Afghanistan, 11 days before the country is set to hold a presidential election the militant group has vowed to disrupt.
A U.S. service member and at least seven Afghans have been killed across Afghanistan, while one-third of the country was hit by a blackout.
At least four members of Afghan security forces have been killed in a suicide bombing at the front gate of a military base on the outskirts of Kabul, according to the Defense Ministry.
The son of revered Afghan resistance fighter Ahmad Shah Masud says he wants to make his late father's goal of creating a moderate Afghan state a reality. In an interview with RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan, Ahmad Masud warned against any peace deal with the Taliban and explained why he's following in his slain father's political footsteps to fight the group's extremist ideology.
Shafiqa Mosawi, 63, is one of thousands of Afghans who have enrolled in adult literacy centers across the country to learn to read and write. According to the Afghan Education Ministry, nearly 60 percent of Afghans over 45 years old are illiterate.
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