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.
Taliban authorities confirmed on September 12 that civilians had been shot dead that day in an attack in central Afghanistan but provided no further details.
A small group of Afghan women took to the streets of Kabul on September 11 in a rare protest to demand their rights and call on the international community to denounce the draconian Taliban rule.
The Afghan Embassy in London is being shut down after its diplomats were dismissed by the country's Taliban rulers, Britain's Foreign Office said on September 9.
UN rights chief Volker Turk launched a four-week session of the Human Rights Council with a call for global leadership to avert a "dystopian future," invoking urgent warnings about the treatment of women in Taliban-led Afghanistan and Ukrainians under near-constant Russian attack.
At least six people were killed and 13 injured in a blast in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on September 2, representatives of the de facto Taliban rulers said.
Richard Bennett, the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has arrived in Qatar to meet with "diverse groups" of Afghan men and women, along with government representatives, on the situation in Afghanistan.
The United Nations said it will continue to engage with all parties in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, even after the hard-line rulers issued a “distressing” new morality law that severely bans women’s activities in public.
For the first time since the Taliban retook power, a deportation flight to Afghanistan took off from Germany's Leipzig/Halle Airport on the morning of August 30.
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.
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