Mustafa Sarwar is a senior news editor for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, 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 national unity government is undergoing trying times as it confronts defections, political opposition, and a major national assembly to decide the future political system for the country this year.
A dispute over the removal of huge portraits of the first vice president in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif might renew the rivalry between two strongmen who attempted cooperation and competition to shape northern Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's first vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum, is boycotting government business over President Ashraf Ghani's reluctance to appoint his loyalists to key posts and go ahead with his plans to create new combat units to fight the Taliban.
While supplying weapons to Kabul, Moscow is reaching out to its hard-line Taliban enemies in an effort to strike a covert alliance against the rise of the Islamic State group in Afghanistan.
Afghan officials and lawmakers have confirmed that the Taliban have recaptured a remote district close to Central Asia. The insurgents first overran the district in the spring.
The recent arrest in the Netherlands of a former Afghan military officer on charges of ordering one of the early massacres in the Afghan war has rekindled hopes that the perpetrators of war crimes in Afghanistan might one day face justice.
Kabul is reportedly expected to receive Russian-made attack helicopters from New Delhi. The deal has raised eyebrows in India's regional archrival, Pakistan.
Influential Afghan political leaders are urging the government to hold a Loya Jirga or grand council to consider sweeping changes to the country's political system.
Afghan officials say Taliban militants have stoned to death a 19-year-old woman in the city of Firoz-Koh in Ghor Province.
Afghan officials say the ongoing fighting in northern Afghanistan is aimed at destabilizing neighboring Central Asian states.
One of only two women serving as governors in Afghanistan, Sima Joyenda didn't expect things to be easy upon her appointment to lead Ghor Province. But the death threats amid calls for her to resign are something new.
When the Taliban recently took control of the Afghan city of Kunduz, a popular women-run radio station was one of the first buildings to be destroyed.
Despite uncertainty following news of the death of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, the Afghan Taliban is expected to move toward a negotiated settlement with Kabul.
The recent appointment of a quiet bureaucrat as Afghanistan's defense minister is expected to stir dissent even if he is confirmed into the job.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's first visit to India is seen as an effort to revive Kabul's alliance with New Delhi after Islamabad failed to help deliver Taliban insurgents to the negotiating table.
A senior aide to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has refuted a report by a Russian news agency that quoted him as saying the U.S. sponsors terrorists.
A British author sees an urgent need for a political settlement in Afghanistan to prevent Islamist militants there from mutating into more dangerous extremist outfits.
A remote northeastern Afghan province bordering Central Asia, China and Pakistan has unexpectedly emerged as a region vulnerable to militant infiltration helped by anemic security forces.
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