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.
Officials in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province say actor and film director Zahir Armani has been found dead after being kidnapped earlier this week.
The Afghan intelligence chief who was wounded in a December 6 suicide bombing has been transferred to a hospital in the United States.
Afghanistan's lower house of parliament has voted to start impeachment proceedings against 11 cabinet ministers.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Zardari were expected to discuss the suicide bombing last week that wounded Afghan intelligence chief Asadullah Khalid.
The head of Afghanistan's intelligence service has been wounded in a bomb attack in Kabul.
Two men have been arrested in Afghanistan's northern province of Konduz in connection with the beheading of a 14-year-old girl.
Afghanistan has closed down three major public universities in the capital, Kabul, for more than a week after sectarian clashes left one student dead and nearly 30 others wounded.
Officials in Afghanistan’s eastern Wardak Province say three people have been killed and dozens more injured in a suicide car-bomb blast.
At least two Afghan guards were killed and five civilians injured in Kabul on November 21 in a suicide bombing near a complex of the international military coalition.
A roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan's western Farah Province has killed at least 17 people, mostly women and children.
U.S. and Afghan representatives have launched crucial talks in Kabul on the status of U.S. forces remaining in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of NATO combat troops in 2014.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry has posted a statement indicating that an unspecified number of Pakistani-held Taliban prisoners "are being released."
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.
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