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.
Afghanistan's independent media watchdog NAI said there have been over 14 fatal attacks against reporters and other media workers since 2016.
A suicide bombing near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul has killed at least four people and wounded 22, in an attack on a convoy of foreign forces, Afghan officials say.
Notorious former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has held talks with government representatives in eastern Afghanistan after years outside the country, his first public meetings with officials from the Western-backed government since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.
A top U.S. Army general has suggested during a visit to Afghanistan by U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that Russia is arming Taliban militants.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has arrived in Afghanistan, making an unannounced visit to assess the needs in the war against Taliban and other militants.
The Afghan government has announced a day of mourning in the wake of an April 21 attack by the Taliban on a military compound in Balkh Province that officials say left more than 130 army personnel dead.
Afghan officials say the number of Islamic State (IS) group fighters killed in an attack by the most powerful nonnuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military has risen to 94.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said on April 14 his decision to use one of the U.S. military's largest nonnuclear bombs on an Islamic State (IS) target in Afghanistan was done in communication with officials in Washington and was a purely tactical decision.
Afghanistan's Defense Ministry has dismissed nearly 1,400 of its officials over alleged corruption over the past year, a high-ranking ministry official says.
Afghan security forces have killed seven militants in the latest military operation in Logar Province, where Taliban insurgents have a strong presence, a local police chief has said.
At least 10 Taliban militants have been killed and two others injured in an air strike in the eastern province of Paktia, Afghan officials said on March 19.
Russia has set April 14 as the date for international talks on the conflict in Afghanistan, Russian state-run news agency Interfax says.
An Afghan official says authorities have arrested 24 people, including an army general, on charges of neglecting their duties over a recent attack on the country's largest military hospital.
Officials in Afghanistan’ southeastern province of Khost say three gunmen have attacked a military base.
Pakistan’s border police say more than 20,000 Afghans and Pakistanis have crossed into Afghanistan since March 7 since Pakistani authorities temporarily reopened two main crossings that were closed after a series of militant attacks.
Thousands of activists rallied in downtown Kabul on February 23, protesting Pakistan's cross-border rocket shelling last week.
Provincial officials in eastern Afghanistan say 11 members of an Afghan family have been killed by a grenade attack on their home.
Provincial officials in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand say a child and five members of Afghanistan's national security forces were killed on February 11 by a Taliban suicide car bomber in the provincial capital of Helmand.
Six Afghan employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been killed in an attack in the northern Afghan province of Jowzjan, officials say.
Afghanistan's attorney general has ordered the arrest of nine employees of Afghan Vice President Rashid Dostum in connection with allegations of kidnapping and torturing one of Dostum's political rivals.
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