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 authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the former head of Afghanistan's national soccer federation in connection with allegations that he sexually abused female players for several years.
Afghan peace protesters who went missing after marching through a Taliban-controlled area of Helmand Province have been detained by the militants, a supporter of the movement told RFE/RL on June 5.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says he will visit Pakistan on June 27 in an effort to improve bilateral relations that are often hampered by mistrust and reciprocal accusations.
Three consecutive explosions shook the same area of the Afghan capital, Kabul, early in the morning of June 2. The first blast occurred after a bomb was attached to the underside of a minibus carrying female university students. At least one person was reported killed.
Afghanistan's election authorities say they have postponed two local elections that were scheduled to be held in September.
Afghanistan's authorities say they have launched an investigation into allegations that some members of President Ashraf Ghani's administration have exchanged sexual favors for government posts.
Afghan police say gunmen have shot dead seven members of one family in the capital, Kabul.
Afghan security forces showed off 30 alleged Taliban and Islamic State militants captured in Kandahar Province. The prisoners were all masked to conceal their identities. They're accused of terrorism and of targeting security forces and religious scholars.
Ten people were wounded when a sticky bomb attached to a minibus carrying government workers detonated in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say.
A court in Afghanistan has sentenced two teenagers to 30 years in prison for the kidnapping and killing of a young girl whose death prompted national outrage.
Afghan police have arrested more than 40 people in the capital, Kabul, for celebratory gunfire that followed the Afghan national cricket team’s victory over Pakistan in a warm-up match for the Cricket World Cup on May 24.
Three people, including a senior cleric, were killed and at least 20 wounded in an explosion during prayers at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
An air strike has mistakenly killed at least nine Afghan police officers, including a commander, during a battle with the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand, local officials say.
Afghan officials say at least six government troops have been killed in Taliban attacks on two military checkpoints in the country's south.
The Afghan election authorities have announced the final results of the country's parliamentary polls in Kabul, seven months after the vote was held.
In Afghanistan's mountainous Panjshir Province, daredevils hit the slopes in the local style: riding a surcha, a handmade wooden snowboard that demands great balance and nerves of steel.
The United Nations' Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed "grave concern" about the impact on civilians from an "increase in violence around the country" during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Afghan officials say a prominent former television journalist was shot dead in Kabul on May 11 by unknown gunmen. Mena Mangal was a television presenter for more than a decade, and she also ran popular social-media pages about the rights of Afghan women to work and girls to attend school.
Afghan officials say prominent former television journalist Mena Mangal has been shot dead in Kabul.
Seventeen-year-old Rahila Rafi was killed last August in a suicide attack on a Kabul classroom. Her brother has opened a library in honor of his slain sister after being inspired by an entry in Rahila's diary.
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