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 U.S.-led military command in Afghanistan says it will no longer publish figures on Taliban attacks.
Speaking to reporters alongside NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on March 4 in Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says Pakistan has taken "no practical steps" to help neighboring Afghanistan find a peaceful solution to Taliban militancy.
Hundreds of people have attended the funerals of 10 men in Takhar Province, in Afghanistan's northeast, who were recently hanged in Iran reportedly on charges of drug smuggling.
The international forces in Afghanistan have rejected a UN committee's report that U.S. military forces in Afghanistan have killed hundreds of children in attacks over the last four years.
Afghan police say they have arrested six men whom they accuse of planning to carry out suicide bombing attacks.
Trade unions and businesses in the western Afghan city of Herat have vowed to protest indefinitely until authorities arrest the killers of a businessman's son.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says peace efforts with the Taliban should go through the High Peace Council set up by the Afghan government.
Afghan and Pakistani defense officials are discussing bilateral military cooperation, including the prospects of having the Afghan National Army trained by Pakistani military specialists.
Officials in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni say two people were killed in a suicide attack.
Mahmud Karzai, a brother of Afghanistan's president, has told RFE/RL he has renounced his U.S. citizenship in order to launch a political career.
Authorities in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan say U.S. drone attacks have inflicted more than 30 casualties on suspected militants.
Afghan officials have denied claims by the United Nations that prisoners in government custody were being tortured.
A shoot-out with insurgents at Kabul's traffic-police headquarters has come to an end after Afghan security forces killed the five militants barricaded inside the building. Three traffic-police officers were killed and 18 people were wounded.
Afghan officials in the western province of Herat say a suicide bomber and his accomplice were killed when their explosives detonated in a botched attack.
Jalil Jilani, Pakistan's foreign secretary, said at a news conference in Abu Dhabi that Islamabad was coordinating the release of all Afghan Taliban prisoners still in Pakistan's custody.
Suicide bombers have attacked Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security building in the capital.
Washington says it is considering all options for Afghanistan in 2014, including a complete pullout of U.S. troops. The reaction in Kabul ranges from worry to disbelief.
Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry has confirmed that 21 Afghan nationals died when a ship carrying illegal immigrants capsized off the Greek coast earlier this month.
Afghanistan's Interior Ministry says it has discovered that the policewoman who shot dead a U.S. civilian police trainer at Kabul's police headquarters on December 25 is an Iranian citizen.
A senior judge has lost his honor and position after his advances for bribes and marriage were exposed by the woman he coveted as a bride.
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