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.
Millions of women around the world have to fight for basic human rights. In places like Afghanistan, Iran, and the Balkans, the challenges women face vary, but they remain resilient. Under the Taliban’s rule, Afghan women are being erased from public life and denied basic freedoms.
The first train carrying goods from China to Afghanistan arrived in Mazar-e Sharif on November 23 after crossing through Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the de facto Taliban rulers said.
The Taliban on November 13 executed a man convicted of murder in a sports stadium -- the sixth public execution since the radical Islamist group returned to power in 2022.
Turkish authorities deported 325 Afghan migrants over the past two days, the Taliban-led government’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations said on November 10.
Two Kabul residents expressed their views on Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election. While one said he hoped his return to power would bring peace and security to Afghanistan, another said Trump's suggestion he might seek to retake Baghram Airport could spell war.
A fire erupted at a gas distribution company in Kabul, killing at least six people, officials said.
Afghan journalists fear new restrictions after the Taliban-led government banned the media from showing images of living things in compliance with "morality laws." Several TV channels have been turned into radio stations and some stations have banned women’s voices.
At least two people were killed and several wounded on October 23 in Kabul in a blast near a government office where ID cards are issued, a Taliban source told RFE/RL.
The Taliban conducted house-to-house searches in at least two districts of Kabul on October 22, local sources quoted by RFE/RL said.
The Taliban has banned any depiction of living things, including people and animals. The ban has triggered concerns over press freedom.
Three people were killed in Afghanistan’s central Ghor Province in clashes between Taliban fighters and extremists affiliated with the Khorasan branch of the Islamic State (IS-K), a Taliban source told RFE/RL.
Severe winds in Afghanistan's central Ghor Province have destroyed a tent settlement where hundreds of flood victims were temporarily sheltered. Their original homes were swept away in the summer by torrential rains. The Taliban promised to build new housing, but not even basic aid has materialized.
The Taliban announced in August that it had destroyed over 20,000 musical instruments in Afghanistan in the past year. The extremist group considers instruments un-Islamic and permits only unaccompanied singing. In an interview with RFE/RL, an exiled Afghan musician condemned the move.
Iranians told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda of their fears and concerns over a potential war with Israel.
Afghanistan's Taliban-led government has announced the arrest of several alleged members of an Afghan-based regional branch of Islamic State who are suspected of killing three foreign tourists in Bamiyan in May and involvement in a mid-September attack on compliance officials in Kabul.
The Afghanistan Journalists' Support Organization (AJSO) has expressed concern at the 10-year prison sentences reportedly given to two reporters by a Taliban military court after their arrest in Kabul two months ago.
Iran has intensified its deportation of refugees and migrants from neighboring Afghanistan. The rate of deportations has increased as anti-Afghan sentiment soars in the Islamic republic.
Afghanistan's Taliban-run Health Ministry on September 17 rejected reports asserting that the hard-line group had suspended or delayed a polio-vaccination drive shortly before it was scheduled to begin.
Veteran Afghan warlord and former politician Abdul Rashid Dostum has urged groups that oppose the fundamentalist Taliban to unite to form a government-in-exile for Afghanistan to challenge that extremist group's unrecognized leadership.
A regional branch of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in central Afghanistan targeting Shi'ite pilgrims.
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