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 Defense Ministry has rejected a U.S. government audit warning that Afghan security forces are ill-prepared to maintain NATO-built bases on their own beyond 2014.
An Afghan official has told RFE/RL on condition of anonymity that Afghanistan's next presidential election will be held on April 5, 2014.
A suicide bomber has detonated explosives inside a mosque in northwestern Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 70 others.
Pakistan's president and the leader of a Pakistani party have sent separate letters to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, reassuring him of their cooperation in the joint fight against terrorism.
A spokesman for Afghanistan's Mining Ministry says that Canadian company Terraseis has located a large oil field in the northwestern part of the country.
An Afghan police officer and cook have poisoned their colleagues at a checkpoint in an assault coordinated with insurgent fighters that left six dead.
An Afghan lawmaker alleged that the country's second vice-president, Muhammad Karim Khalili, recently bailed out a warlord accused of murder, kidnapping and bribery, among other crimes.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has arrived in Kabul for meetings with the Afghan president and other key leaders, with international forces' planned withdrawal in two years' time likely high on the agenda.
An Afghan regional official told RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan that 45 Afghan soldiers and eight civilians were wounded in a suicide bombing near an Afghan-NATO military compound in the east of the country.
Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry has criticized a Pakistani politician who characterized the fighting in Afghanistan as a "jihad," or Islamic holy war.
Millions of students in Afghanistan have participated in nationwide prayers for the recovery of Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old girl shot and gravely wounded this week by the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat Valley.
Afghan security officials say they have expelled 35 foreign Islamic clerics from southern Afghanistan.
A U.S. official says a suspected insider attack by a member of Afghan security forces killed a U.S. soldier, bringing to 2,000 the number of U.S. military deaths in the 11-year-old conflict.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has dismissed five provincial governors as part of a government-declared effort to fight correction and spur reforms.
Four U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan were shot dead and two wounded on September 16 by at least one Afghan police officer -- the second such attack against NATO-led troops within 24 hours.
Afghanistan's parliament has delayed a confirmation vote for four top security posts -- the ministers of defense, interior, and border and tribal affairs, as well as the director of the national intelligence agency.
The Afghan Ministry of Culture and Information has brought legal proceedings against two popular entertainment television channels.
The Taliban has denounced moves by the United States to blacklist the Pakistan-based Haqqani network as a terrorist organization, saying it would have no impact on militant operations.
Afghan officials say two suicide attackers have blown themselves up near a NATO base in the country's east, killing or wounding scores of Afghans, including eight civilians and four police officers.
Hundreds of Afghans have held a demonstration in Kabul to condemn shelling by Pakistani forces of areas of eastern Afghanistan.
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