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.
Afghan president's national security adviser says Islamic State militants are interested in using his country to destabilize its northern Central Asian neighbors.
A NATO official says Afghan security forces will defeat a Taliban insurgency near the northern city of Kunduz that has caused thousands of people to flee their homes.
An Afghan government delegation is expected to meet with representatives of the Taliban over the next several days in Qatar.
The European Union has urged Afghanistan's government to battle widespread corruption in the country.
Afghan security forces battled Taliban militants on the outskirts of Kunduz city on April 28 as the Taliban continued their push for territory in northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz Province.
Officials in northeastern Afghanistan say at least 52 people have been killed by a massive landslide in a remote part of Badakhshan Province.
Officials say at least 17 people have been killed and more than 40 wounded, including a prominent parliament member, in a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan.
Afghan cricket fans are celebrating the country’s first victory in a World Cup match, after their national team defeated Scotland by one wicket in Dunedin, New Zealand on February 26.
Officials in southern Afghanistan are investigating the theft of almost $1.5 million from a branch of the country's central bank.
Afghanistan's parliament has said it will leave seven cabinet nominees out of a mandatory parliamentary confirmation because they hold dual citizenship.
Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry says government forces have killed 23 Taliban militants during operations in three different parts of the country.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's office has announced nominees for the country's cabinet after months of delays following a disputed election.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani marked his first 100 days in power on January 6, still struggling to form a cabinet with the chief executive of his unity government, Abdullah Abdullah.
Iranian authorities have agreed to allow the children of illegal Afghan immigrants to attend Iranian schools and universities.
A leader of the Jundullah militant group has reportedly been killed in northern Afghanistan.
Five Afghan men convicted for the gang rape of four women in a case that has attracted global attention have been executed in Kabul.
Local officials say hundreds of Taliban fighters have stormed a district in the strategic Ghazni province, southwest of Kabul, killing nearly 20 people, including women and children.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he expects that security agreements with the United States and NATO will be signed by Afghanistan's new leadership "in the next few days, after the inauguration of the president-elect.”
Outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai has used his farewell speech to take one last swipe at the United States and Pakistan, blaming both countries for the continuing war with the Taliban.
An Afghan appeals court on September 15 overturned death sentences against two men in a gang-rape case.
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