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.
The funeral of RFE/RL journalist Sabawoon Kakar took place in Kabul on May 1, one day after he was killed in a suicide bombing.
RFE/RL Afghan Service journalist Sabawoon Kakar was buried in Kabul on May 1, a day after he was killed in a suicide bombing. His colleague Abadullah Hananzai, was buried on April 30, as was Maharram Durrani -- who was training to become a journalist at RFE/RL's Kabul bureau.
Two RFE/RL journalists were among at least 25 people killed in a pair of coordinated suicide bombings that rocked central Kabul near the headquarters of Afghanistan's intelligence agency.
The West and Russia have a shared interest in Afghanistan's stability, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has told RFE/RL.
Taliban insurgents have ambushed and killed the deputy governor of Afghanistan's eastern Logar Province, police say.
Afghans heading to take part in the opium harvest tell RFE/RL they have no other way of making a living. Afghanistan is the world's biggest poppy producer.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says a deadly suicide bombing outside a voter registration center in the capital, Kabul, will not “weaken” the country’s “democratic process.”
At least 31 people died on April 22 as a suicide bomber targeted a crowd of people outside a voter registration center in Kabul. The people were lining up to pick up national identification cards. (RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan)
suicide bombing outside a voter-registration center in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed at least 57 people and wounded 119 others, officials say.
Dozens of suspected Taliban and Islamic State (IS) militants were killed by Afghan security forces in the past 24 hours across the country, Afghan authorities said on April 21.
Afghan authorities have returned the bodies of five Pakistani soldiers killed during a weekend clash along a disputed sector of the two countries' border, and also released a sixth soldier captured by the Afghans, Pakistan's Foreign Office says.
Afghanistan has returned the dead bodies of five Pakistani soldiers to Pakistan following clashes near the two countries' disputed border, Afghan officials say.
Afghan officials say at least 15 people have been killed, including a district governor, after Taliban militants attacked a district government compound in southeastern Afghanistan.
A local commander of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has been killed by Afghan security forces in the northern province of Jawzjan, Afghan officials say.
Six Afghan soldiers have been slightly wounded in a bomb attack in the capital, the Defense Ministry says.
Dozens of schoolgirls have been sickened at a high school in the southern Afghan province of Helmand in what officials suspect is a case of group poisoning.
Afghanistan's election authorities have set October 20 as the date for long-delayed legislative and district council elections.
Afghan officials say a bomb that exploded on March 24 near a protest site in Kabul has killed one person and wounded 13 others.
Jahantab Ahmadi became a viral sensation on the Afghan web after she was photographed nursing her infant daughter while taking her university entrance exam. She passed the exam -- and became the subject of a crowdfunding effort to help her pay her university fees. (RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan)
A car bomb has exploded at the entrance of a sports stadium in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan's southwestern province of Helmand, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens as they were leaving a wrestling match.
Load more
