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 Islamic State group on July 13 released an audio recording it claims is the voice movement's leader for Afghanistan, contradicting reports he had been killed by a U.S. drone strike three days earlier.
The Afghan intelligence agency says the leader of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in the Afghanistan and Pakistan region has been killed in a air strike.
Afghanistan’s parliament has rejected the country’s first-ever female nominee for the Supreme Court.
An Afghan appeals court has overturned death sentences handed down to four men for their part in the mob killing of a woman, falsely accused of burning a copy of the Koran.
Suicide attacks targeted a foreign military convoy and a police headquarters in Afghanistan on June 30, killing at least three and wounding nearly 60 people.
A suicide bomber and six gunmen staged a brazen attack on the Afghan parliament, killing two civilians. All of the attackers were killed by Afghan security forces. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
Afghan officials say government forces have regained control of a district in the northeastern province of Badakhshan.
Afghan police say the death toll has risen to 18 from a roadside bomb that exploded in southern Afghanistan on June 20.
Security forces in northern Afghanistan say they are preparing to launch a counteroffensive against Taliban militants after government troops took control of a district in the country’s northeast.
Officials say "intense fighting" is under way in northeast Afghanistan as government forces attempt to retake a district overrun by Taliban militants.
Officials say that at least three security personnel and eight Taliban fighters were killed when a district in northeastern Afghanistan fell under Taliban control after rebels attacked security checkpoints on June 6.
Five Taliban militants have been killed in an overnight battle when they tried to storm a police compound in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad in an attack that began with a suicide car bomber driving into the facility’s gate.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has written a letter to Pakistani leaders demanding that Islamabad take stronger action against Taliban militants.
Dozens of insurgents attacked several checkpoints in southern Afghanistan, killing 26 security forces' personnel in a day-long battle.
Authorities in Afghanistan say a suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of vehicles with foreign security forces near Kabul Airport, killing a foreign staff member of the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL) and two Afghan women.
Afghan Taliban militants blocked roads in eastern Paktia Province and kidnapped at least 30 occupants at gunpoint before most of the captives were later freed in a police action.
As investigators consider the possibility of an inside job, details surrounding a deadly Taliban attack that targeted foreign partygoers at a popular Kabul guesthouse remain sketchy.
The United Nations says the death toll from a May 13 Taliban attack on a Kabul guesthouse popular with foreigners has jumped to 14.
Nearly 20 Hazaras taken in February in a brazen hostage-taking in southern Afghanistan have reportedly been released.
A provincial official in Afghanistan says kidnappers have released 19 Hazara hostages abducted in February in exchange for 22 people.
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