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.
Under the Taliban, Afghan women can't study at universities or work in most jobs. But 22-year-old Zahra Ali has created a small business that provides a resource to her neighbors. At her home workshop, she builds battery packs that help supplement the country's unreliable power grid.
Afghan women face more than 100 restrictions -- controlling everything from their appearance and movement to their right to work and study. Those accused of violating the Taliban’s so-called "morality laws" are often detained and arrested by the Taliban.
Afghanistan’s Islamist Taliban rulers have banned education and most jobs for Afghan women, who are also barred from parks, gyms, and bathhouses. With such constraints, Afghan women are furious after photos and videos emerged of an American porn actor visiting their country.
Doctors at a hospital in the Afghan city of Kandahar say they've admitted 5,500 malnourished children in the last six months alone. Nearly 3 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from malnutrition, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers say they no longer consider the Doha agreement -- a peace deal with the United States that paved the way for the withdrawal of Western forces from the country -- to be valid.
German police arrested an Afghan asylum seeker after he rammed a car into a crowd in Munich on February 13, injuring 28 people. The incident comes just before the high-profile Munich Security Conference and 10 days before German elections in which migration is a major political issue.
Police in Munich arrested an Afghan asylum seeker after he rammed a car into a crowd in the German city, injuring 28 people and leaving many Afghans in the country on edge amid calls during an election campaign for tougher immigration laws.
Tensions between Washington and Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are rising a week into President Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor is seeking arrest warrants for two top Taliban officials alleging they are responsible for persecuting Afghan women and girls.
U.S. officials and media confirmed the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in exchange for a Taliban man imprisoned for life in California on drug and terrorism charges.
Afghans cleared for resettlement in the United States are fearful that an executive order signed by President Donald Trump will put them at grave risk. Some 1,660 Afghan refugees have been pulled from scheduled flights, according to an aid organization.
After a year of unprecedented trade and breaking ground on major mining projects in 2024, there's new momentum for Beijing's role in Afghanistan and deepening ties with the Taliban. But can the hard-line group finally calm China's security concerns and unleash a wave of much-needed investment?
Hundreds of Afghans are killed and injured every year by land mines left behind during four decades of wars in their country. Now, reduced international funding is forcing demining agencies to cut their operations in one of the most mine-infested countries in the world.
Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government said that Taliban forces targeted what it claimed were “centers and hideouts for malicious elements” it said were involved in a recent attack in Afghanistan, as an upsurge of cross-border fighting continues.
From Central Europe to the Caucusus to Central Asia and Afghanistan, 2024 saw extreme flooding across many of the countries in RFE/RL's region. We look back at the impact and ask Ayesha Tandon, a science journalist at the U.K.-based website Carbon Brief, what's causing the increased flooding.
As the academic year ends in Afghanistan, students are saying goodbye to their teachers and classmates. But for girls as young as 11, it's the end of their education altogether, due to the Taliban's prohibition on girls studying after the sixth grade.
Khalil Haqqani, the refugee minister in Afghanistan's Taliban-led administration, has been killed in an explosion in the capital, Kabul, two sources from inside the government told RFE/RL's Radio Azadi on December 11.
A Taliban shutdown on midwife and nurse training in Afghanistan has students worried over the health consequences for women. Medical trainees have launched singing protests and taken to social media to decry the latest restriction on Afghan women's education.
The Taliban has ordered all private educational institutions in Afghanistan to cease female medical education starting December 3, according to two informed sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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