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.
Thousands of influential Afghans have assembled in Kabul to discuss pressing national issues. But the "grand gathering of Islamic scholars” leaves out women and ethnic and religious minorities, falling far short of the inclusivity Afghans have been promised by the Taliban.
The European Union's special envoy for Afghanistan says girls’ access to secondary education has been on the agenda in recent talks he's had with members of the Taliban-led government, but they have not explained why girls have been excluded or indicated when schools might reopen for girls.
Monawara Quraishi is an Afghan teenager. She is upset that she cannot complete her high school courses due to the Taliban's restrictions on schooling for girls. "Since the schools were closed, I have been crying," the 19-year-old has told Radio Azadi -- RFE/RL's Afghan service.
The Taliban has converted dozens of secular schools, universities, and training centers into religious madrasahs. It has also announced plans to build hundreds of Islamic seminaries. Critics say the Taliban's aim is to "brainwash” children and root out all forms of secular education in Afghanistan.
Tents, food, and medical supplies are arriving in eastern Afghanistan following a deadly earthquake and powerful aftershock.
An aftershock has killed five people in eastern Afghanistan just hours after Taliban authorities said they have ended search-and-rescue operations from a major earthquake two days ago and raised the death toll to at least 1,150 in the war-torn country's worst such disaster in two decades.
Survivors of the devastating earthquake in southeastern Afghanistan have offered harrowing details of their losses. Entire families have been wiped out by the tremors that wreaked havoc on remote villages. At least 1,000 people were killed in the worst earthquake in the country in two decades.
Efforts to reach communities in Afghanistan affected by the June 22 earthquake are being hampered by bad roads and heavy rain. The magnitude-6.1 quake is known to have killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500. The epicenter was 160 kilometers southeast of Kabul near the Pakistani border.
The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan says search and rescue operations have been completed in almost all the quake-hit areas of Paktika Province and the focus is now turning to relief efforts.
Family members say Sundar Singh's love for Afghanistan kept him in Kabul, where he was killed during an attack on a Sikh temple by the IS-K militant group. Members of Afghanistan's tiny Sikh community have been the target of several deadly attacks in recent years, forcing many to flee abroad.
Taliban officials have begun destroying marijuana and opium crops after Afghanistan's Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada ordered a ban on cultivating the crops in April. Afghanistan is the world's biggest opium producer.
At least two people are dead and 28 others wounded after an explosion ripped through a market in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.
A regional affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) militant group has claimed responsibility for an attack at a Sikh temple in the Afghan capital on June 18 that killed at least two people and injured seven.
The Taliban has ordered Afghan bodybuilders to cover up their bodies during training and competitions, a move that has been criticized by athletes. The Taliban order is the latest attempt to control the appearances of Afghans, both men and women, in public.
Afghans are being hit hard by an economic crisis that has disrupted essential services and left them struggling to make ends meet. But the country's Taliban leaders, limited to domestic revenue to fund the annual budget, are finding ways to squeeze citizens even more.
Afghans seeking medical treatment or escaping threats in their country say their efforts to enter Pakistan are complicated by a thriving black market for visas. Amid reports that visas are being sold for exorbitant prices, the Pakistani embassy has fired 12 staff members over bribery accusations.
The Taliban has detained a popular Afghan YouTuber and three of his colleagues for allegedly "insulting Islam" in one of their videos.
The Taliban has been accused of forcibly evicting hundreds of people from their homes in the northern province of Baghlan, the scene of deadly clashes between the militants and resistance forces.
An Afghan protester told RFE/RL's Radio Azadi on May 26 that she's not afraid to give her life to defend the rights of women and young girls in the country. Her comments came after female protesters took to the streets of Kabul to demand the Taliban allow education and jobs for women.
While Afghanistan's Taliban leadership has banned the transit of undocumented migrants across the border to Pakistan and Iran, it's nothing smugglers cannot overcome by greasing the palms of Taliban border guards and others along the way.
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