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.
Rights groups and Afghan religious scholars have demonstrated against the executions of Afghan nationals by Iran.
Afghanistan's elections officials have ordered a recount of ballots in some 500 polling stations.
The telephone conversations of the Afghan president and his ministers have been secured from eavesdropping.
A female member of the Afghan parliament, Maryam Koofi, has been shot and injured by unknown gunmen near her home in Kabul.
A spokesman for Kandahar's provincial government said foreign troops had blocked the main highway after a separate suicide car-bomb attack there earlier, prompting a vehicle to use a dirt road, where a homemade explosive device was planted.
Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission says ballot boxes from 20 of the country's 34 provinces have been transported to Kabul for the final vote count from weekend elections.
Ballot boxes from Afghanistan's 34 provinces are being transferred to the capital Kabul for final counting in the wake of the country's presidential election on April 5.
German photographer Anja Niedringhaus has been killed and her Canadian colleague Kathy Gannon seriously wounded in eastern Afghanistan.
Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has blown himself up outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul, killing at least six police officers.
Candidates in Afghanistan's presidential election have canceled their appearances in all televised debates scheduled for this week because of growing insecurity in Kabul.
Oliver Rosenbauer, a representative of WHO's Global Polio Eradication Initiative, told RFE/RL on March 31 that although "tremendous progress has been achieved in Afghanistan," the country will remain at risk of infection as long as the polio virus circulates in neighboring Pakistan.
Afghan police have killed all five Taliban militants who had attacked the heavily fortified headquarters of Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) in Kabul with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.
Police say the siege of a Kabul guest house has ended after security forces killed the last remaining militant inside the building.
A third candidate has quit Afghanistan's April 5 presidential race.
Hundreds of mourners turned out in pouring rain for the funeral of Sardar Ahmad, AFP's senior reporter in Afghanistan, together with his wife and two of their children.
A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation has called on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign a security treaty with the United States and asked him to review Afghanistan's position on the release of prisoners considered a security threat by Washington.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has nominated Mohammad Yunis Qanooni to succeed Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim, who died suddenly on March 9.
The ceremony for the former warlord and Afghan Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim started at the Defense Ministry compound, then moved to the presidential palace where government officials, foreign dignitaries, and diplomats paid their respects.
The Taliban are vowing to target Afghanistan's April 5 presidential election.
Afghan officials say Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim has died of natural causes at the age of 56.
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