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.
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.
The Taliban recently ordered Afghan women to cover their faces in public and has said it would punish the male relatives of any woman who fails to do so. Women who spoke to RFE/RL's Radio Azadi said their male relatives have stopped them from leaving home, where they are exposed to increasing abuse.
A group of women have staged a protest in Kabul against the continued closure of schools for girls above the sixth grade as a senior UN official has warned the Taliban's restrictions on women's rights are aimed at making women "invisible."
The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan says four bomb blasts in Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif have killed and injured more than a dozen people.
Dozens of male Afghan journalists and others have joined a social media campaign against a Taliban decree forcing female journalists to cover their faces on air.
Since the Taliban seized power, two Iranian dissidents have allegedly been arrested and another mysteriously killed in Afghanistan. Rights groups say the incidents follow a familiar pattern of arbitrary arrests.
Islamic State-Khorasan militants have carried out two deadly attacks on the Sufi community in Afghanistan in recent weeks. The Sufis, who follow a mystical and moderate form of Islam, are seen as heretics by extremist Islamist groups. Sufis say they are now too afraid to worship in their mosques.
Residents of Afghanistan's Panjshir Province have told RFE/RL's Radio Azadi that the arrival of Taliban fighters to counter growing unrest and fighting by resistance forces has led to hardships for civilians, including killings, torture, and beatings.
A few dozen women braved threats by the Taliban and took to the streets of Kabul on May 10 to voice their discontent over a requirement to cover their faces in public. The order came on May 7 and calls for women to wear head-to-toe coverings and only show their eyes.
Several dozen women's rights activists have protested a Taliban order making it mandatory for women to wear the all-covering burqa, including face veils, when they are in public.
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have ordered all women to cover their faces, the latest in a series of restrictions that have drawn criticism from many Afghans and the international community.
Tolo's sister television networks made their mark on the Afghan media scene with a diverse line-up of hard-hitting news and cutting-edge entertainment options. But as Afghans tune in on World Press Freedom Day, they won't be getting the full picture.
The leader of Kabul's Khalifa Sahib Mosque, which was targeted by an apparent suicide bombing on April 29 as worshipers gathered, has claimed that more than 50 people died in the attack.
At least 10 people died on April 29 in a bomb blast at a mosque in Kabul, said a spokesman for the Taliban-led government police force.
The supreme leader of Afghanistan's Taliban has called again on the international community to recognize the government of the radical militant group that swept to power in August amid the withdrawal of the U.S.-led international forces.
An explosion at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz region during Friday Prayers has killed at least 33 people, a Taliban official said on April 22.
A series of explosions killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens more in Afghanistan on April 21.
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have banned the social media application TikTok and popular online game PUBG, saying the move is aimed to protect younger generations from a bad influence.
A roadside blast in Kabul has injured at least two children, the fifth explosion this week in the Afghan capital.
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