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.
Afghanistan's Supreme Court has confirmed a 20-year prison sentence against a man who falsely accused a woman of burning the Koran, which provoked an angry mob to beat the woman to death near a Muslim shrine in Kabul.
A suicide attack targeted India's diplomatic compound in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on March 2, with explosions and gunfire rattling the diplomatic district.
Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission says Afghan women and girls accused of so-called moral crimes are often forced to endure invasive and scientifically questionable “virginity tests” by government doctors.
A senior Afghan official says Pakistan has been tasked with bringing a group of 10 influential Taliban representatives to Islamabad during the first week of March to take part in direct talks with the Afghan government.
The Afghan Taliban’s office in Qatar has told RFE/RL it continues to insist that all foreign troops in the U.S.-led coalition must leave Afghanistan before it will join direct peace talks with the government in Kabul.
Diplomats from four countries that are trying to broker an end to Afghanistan's war against the Taliban say they hope they will be able on February 23 to set a date for a face-to-face between the Taliban and negotiators from Kabul.
Afghanistan's leaders have urged the Taliban to end its 15-year insurgency and negotiate an end to the war.
The Taliban says one of its senior leaders has died after a battle with cancer.
Afghanistan's chief executive has called on Indian businesses to invest in his war-torn country -- including development of a proposed trade corridor through Afghanistan that links Iran with India and Central Asia.
Afghan and U.S. officials say air strikes have destroyed Voice of the Caliphate, an Islamic State-operated radio station that had been broadcasting the militant group’s extremist messages in eastern Afghanistan since last year.
An international human rights group has condemned a January 20 Taliban suicide attack that targeted employees of the Afghan news network Tolo TV, killing seven people.
At least seven people have been killed in Kabul after a suicide bomber struck a minibus carrying employees of the prominent Afghan news network Tolo TV.
Afghan officials say the siege near the Indian Consulate in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif has ended after all the attackers were killed.
Officials in Kabul say an Afghan National Army helicopter has crashed in the province of Logar to the south of Kabul, killing three Afghan soldiers.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 25 arrived in Kabul, where he will inaugurate the new building of Afghan's parliament built by India.
Afghan officials have expressed concerned over what they described as "the rapid advance of the Taliban" in Helmand Province and warned several districts in the southern province may fall to the militant group.
Fighters pledging loyalty to the Islamic State (IS) extremist group have reportedly overrun new areas in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
A loud explosion has rocked central Kabul, followed by bursts of gunfire.
The head of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, National Directorate of Security chief Rahmatullah Nabil, has resigned from his post, saying in his resignation letter that he was quitting as a result of policy disagreements with President Ashraf Ghani.
Afghanistan's Defense Ministry says Taliban militants killed more than 50 people when they attacked and infiltrated the country’s second-largest military base this week -- the sprawling Kandahar Airfield.
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