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 has formally codified into law a long set of rules governing morality. The new law, which consists of 35 articles, imposes sweeping restrictions on women's movement and behavior and stipulates that men must attend prayers and grow beards.
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have banned UN's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Richard Bennett from entering the country, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid was quoted as saying by private Afghan broadcaster Tolo.
Top officials of the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan marked 105 years of of the country's independence on August 18 by demanding mutual respect from the international community.
The Afghan Taliban's acting prime minister, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, who is on a UN sanctions list, is receiving medical treatment in a hospital in the United Arab Emirates, officials said.
Uzbekistan’s Prime Minister Abdulla Oripov arrived in Kabul on August 17, in a first high-level Uzbek government delegation visit to Afghanistan since the hardline Taliban returned to power
At least 1.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency, said on August 15.
Mohammad Jawad survived war service in the Afghan National Army, fighting against the Taliban, but was kidnapped and tortured to death after the militants seized power in 2021. Human rights groups documented many such cases. RFE/RL has spoken to two women who live in fear due to their military past
The Taliban celebrated the third anniversary of its return to power in Afghanistan with a military parade on August 14 amid what international aid groups say is one of the world's largest and most complex humanitarian crises.
Three Afghan civilians were killed during a clash between Afghan and Pakistani border troops near the Torkham border crossing, a spokesman for the de facto Taliban government in Kabul said on August 13.
An explosion in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killed one person and injured 11 others, Taliban police spokesman Khalid Zadran told RFE/RL on August 11, an attack apparently targeting the country’s minority Hazara community.
Central Asian athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympics have been punching above their weight this summer, taking home numerous medals in martial arts, shooting, and boxing events, among others. Iran and Pakistan have scored big too.
A video of an Afghan teenager allegedly being violently pinned to the ground by Iranian police on August 5 has gone viral, sparking regional outrage. The family of Sayed Mahdi Musavi, 16, say he has hearing and speech disorders and couldn't hear the police officers properly when approached.
Afghan farmers, already reeling from natural disasters that have struck the impoverished country in recent months, have criticized the Taliban's move to impose ushr, an Islamic tax, on their harvests.
Sisters Yulduz and Fariba Hashimi are set to become the first female cyclists from Afghanistan to compete in the Olympics. The siblings fled their country after the Taliban seized power in 2021 and cracked down on women's rights, including banning women from participating in sports.
Taliban officials said it would likely be at least two years before the first copper was extracted by China’s MCC and Chinese diplomats praised the progress as a sign of warming ties between Beijing and Kabul.
RFE/RL's Radio Azadi asked French President Emanuel Macron on July 22 about the significance for Afghan female teams competing in the upcoming Paris Olympics. He says these athletes carry the "hope of other women" and praises the resilience of Afghans.
The homes of several Afghan migrants in the southern Iranian city of Khur have been set on fire in apparent retaliation for the killing of an Iranian man allegedly by an Afghan national.
The death toll from heavy rains and storms in Afghanstan's eastern Nangarhar Province has risen to 40, with 347 people injured, officials said.
Thirty-five people have died and more than 230 others have been injured in heavy rains and storms in Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan, the provincial administration of the Taliban-led government in Nangarhar said on July 15 in a statement.
The oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan and Iran is fueling a global push for "gender apartheid" to be recognized as a crime under international law. What is it and what is the path to recognition?
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