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 says it will release scores of prisoners despite objections from the United States, which considers them a security threat.
Details begin to emerge about the circumstances around a young Afghan girl, now thought to be about 10, who was allegedly forced by a family member or members to wear an explosives-packed vest for a suicide-style attack.
The Pakistani government's top national security advisor says Islamabad is trying to impose greater control over the country’s porous western borders with Afghanistan.
Afghan police are investigating the kidnapping and brutal killings of a female police officer and a pregnant teacher in the southern province of Oruzgan.
Afghan officials say eight people were killed in two separate roadside bomb blasts in the country's eastern provinces on December 15.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in the Indian capital on December 12 seeking New Delhi's support as foreign forces in Afghanistan start their planned drawdown next year.
Afghan leader says Kabul and Tehran will soon sign a "long-term partnership" pact that focuses on political, economic, and security cooperation.
A senior NATO official says the alliance is prepared to sign a long-term strategic pact with Afghanistan, but only after Kabul concludes a security deal with Washington.
The upper house of the Afghan parliament has discussed the possibility of delaying April's presidential election because of extreme winter weather in parts of the country.
An Afghan rights watchdog says there has been a dramatic increase in the number of reported cases of violence against women this year compared to 2012.
A 20-year-old Afghan girl and a young man have been shot dead in northern Afghanistan after apparently attempting to elope.
An influential Afghan politician has opposed President Hamid Karzai's plea to postpone signing a security pact with the United States.
Police say a bomb has exploded near the venue where thousands of influential Afghan figures will gather next week to debate a key U.S.-Afghan security pact.
A Hizb-e Islami official says neither the militant group's leader, former Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, or any other member of the insurgent group will attend the Afghan government's loya jirga in Kabul on November 21.
The Afghan Taliban is urging members of an upcoming grand council not to approve a security pact between the United States and the government of President Hamid Karzai.
Seven dead bodies have been found on the outskirts of Qalat, the capital of Afghanistan's southern Zabul Province.
The Australian ambassador to Afghanistan says his government has offered to keep up to 400 troops in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of U.S.-led NATO forces in 2014.
A council of religious authorities in western Afghanistan has denounced what it calls “immoral” shows on Afghan television.
Former Commerce and Finance Minister Anwarul Haq Ahadi is the only widely recognized hopeful among those whose applications were nixed.
Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) says an investigation into an explosion in Logar Province that killed Governor Arsala Jamal on October 15 shows the explosive material was placed inside a Koran.
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