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.
Afghanistan and Pakistan began peace talks on October 18 in the Qatari capital of Doha after border clashes and attacks raised fears of an all-out war between the two countries.
Fighting along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, along with air strikes on the Afghan capital, Kabul, on October 15, has killed dozens and led to widespread destruction, according to survivors.
Suspected Pakistani air strikes hit Kabul, the Afghan capital, on October 15. The deadly strikes have terrified residents, who fear more attacks amid tensions with neighboring Pakistan.
Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to a temporary cease-fire on October 15 after deadly air strikes and ground fighting raised fears of a full-blown conflict between the neighbors.
Pakistan has carried out air strikes in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, locals told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi, as fresh fighting erupted between the neighbors.
Fierce fighting has broken out in at least five locations, with multiple soldiers killed, in a flare-up of violence between Pakistani and Afghan forces near the two countries' tense border.
Afghans trying to get online say their access to popular social media sites has slowed to a crawl or it entirely cut off. Taliban leaders have not commented on the restrictions, but press freedom advocates see the slowdown as another blow to Afghans' rights to free speech and freedom of information.
Internet watchdog NetBlocks has confirmed reports from inside Afghanistan that several major social media sites have been "intentionally restricted."
Internet and telecommunication services have resumed in Afghanistan after a two-day outage that wreaked havoc in the country. Afghans described the experience as “unreal” and “frightening.”
Safi can't call his parents -- but the Taliban's decision to switch off the Internet in Afghanistan is not only putting people offline. Flights have been canceled, banks shut, and hospitals unable to operate. RFE/RL's Safi Stanikzai reports.
The Taliban has shut down access to fiber-optic Internet in large swaths of Afghanistan. The move has been widely criticized by Afghans who fear being cut off from the rest of the world.
President Donald Trump said the United States is attempting to get Bagram Airfield back from Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, citing the extremist group’s need for US help and the facility’s nearness to China’s nuclear assets.
Afghanistan’s de-facto Taliban rulers said they have reached agreement with visiting US officials on an exchange of prisoners, although no details were given and Washington has not yet confirmed that a deal has been struck.
Hamidullah weeps amid the ruins of his family home in Afghanistan that was destroyed by a massive earthquake. The teen is the sole survivor in his family from the August 31 tremor. He and his neighbors have pulled the bodies of his parents, five sisters, and two brothers from the rubble.
A teenager from Afghanistan's Kunar Province tells RFE/RL's Radio Azadi how he returned from work in the city of Jalalabad to find his parents, five sisters, and two brothers dead, and his home destroyed.
Sola lost eight members of her family, including all her male relatives, in Afghanistan’s worst earthquake in years.
The death toll in a massive earthquake in Afghanistan last week has been nearly doubled to 2,205 as rescue workers continue to trickle into the remote mountainous area flattened by the disaster.
Wazir Khan lost 10 members of his family in the deadly earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan on August 31.
Families in eastern Afghanistan continue to recover their dead after an earthquake struck on August 31, killing more than 1,400 people. RFE/RL's Radio Azadi spoke to a man in Kunar Province who lost 10 family members. He and fellow survivors are sheltering under tents near their destroyed homes.
Dozens of Afghan commandos are being airdropped into a remote mountainous region along the eastern border with Pakistan to help in the race to rescue victims of an earthquake late last week that has claimed the lives of more than 1,400 people, according to Taliban authorities.
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