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 Taliban is waging a deadly crackdown on members of Afghanistan's small community of Salafists, an ultraradical Islamic sect. The move comes as fighting intensifies between the Taliban and its rival, Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) militants, many of whom are Salafists.
Mursal Kohistani, a student from Parwan province in Afghanistan, spoke to RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi on October 20. In her words, although secondary and high schools are still open for girls, little is happening in them. (RFE/RL's Radio Azadi)
Taliban militants have attacked several journalists covering a Kabul rally by a group of women demanding "work, bread, and education," spurring concerns about the deterioration of the rights situation under Afghanistan’s new rulers.
Ahmad Zia became a water bearer for Afghan soldiers at the age of 12 after the Taliban killed his father and three uncles in 2019. Now his family of 30 does not even have that meager income.
The Taliban's acting interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, a wanted global terrorist and one of the country's most senior officials, has praised suicide attackers and promised their relatives money and land.
Funerals of some of more than 40 victims of a suicide bombing were held in Kandahar on October 16. The attack targeted a crowded Shi’ite mosque in southern Afghanistan during Friday prayers. (Radio Azadi)
A mass funeral was held in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on October 16 for some of more than 40 people killed the previous day when suicide bombers attacked a crowded Shi'ite mosque during Friday Prayers.
A Taliban police chief has been killed and 11 people wounded in a bomb blast in Asadabad, the capital of Kunar Province, in eastern Afghanistan, local authorities say.
Afghanistan classical music traditions are endangered by Taliban bans on singing or playing musical instruments. But groups that perform Taliban-approved “music-less songs” are proliferating.
The Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) militant group has intensified its attacks against the Taliban, its rival, since the latter seized power in Afghanistan. Experts say the escalating violence between the two militant outfits marks the start of a new phase in the country’s decades-old conflict.
Nimroz Province in Afghanistan's southwest is located on major drug trafficking routes to Iran and Pakistan. Since the Taliban's return to power in August, three drug rehab centers in Nimroz have closed due to a lack of funding while users fend for themselves on the streets.
Marzia Babakarkhil, an Afghan judge, spoke to RFE/RL's Radio Azadi on October 10 about the dangers women judges face in Afghanistan as the Taliban do not acknowledge women in the role of a judge. (RFE/RL's Radio Azadi)
Many media outlets across Afghanistan have shut down in the wake of the Taliban takeover, with some journalists leaving the profession or the country out of fear of reprisals. Gul Ahmad Almas, a former freelance journalist, has turned to heavy labor to make a meager income.
During a visit to Kabul, Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov discussed economic cooperation with the Taliban leadership and said he received "clear assurances" that the militant group will never pose any security threat to Uzbekistan.
During a visit to Kabul, Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov discussed economic cooperation with the Taliban leadership and said he received “clear assurances” that the militant group will never pose any security threat to Uzbekistan.
When U.S. air strikes targeted terrorist training camps in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, it signaled the beginning of a nearly 20-year war that quickly toppled the Taliban, only to see the extremist group ultimately return to power in Kabul.
The UN Human Rights Council has voted to appoint a special rapporteur on Afghanistan to probe allegations of violations perpetrated by the Taliban and other actors involved in the war-wracked country.
The United Nations reports that 14 million Afghans are facing severe food insecurity, and an estimated 1 million Afghan children could die due to acute malnutrition.
Sikhs in Kabul say more than a dozen armed men attacked and briefly occupied a Sikh temple in the Kart-e Parwan district of the Afghan capital on October 5, tying up the guards and destroying security cameras.
Hundreds of people have gathered outside the passport office in Kabul to apply for travel documents after the service opened for the first time since the Taliban seized power in mid-August.
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