Afghanistan has welcomed Washington’s decision to give the U.S. military greater authority to help Afghan forces battle the Taliban.
Afghan officials say gunmen affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) extremist group have killed six police officers in the restive eastern Nangarhar Province, which borders Pakistan.
Veteran Associated Press journalist Tom Kent has been appointed president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Iran, Turkey, and Afghanistan have renewed a battle over bragging rights to a masterpiece by the famed 13th-century Persian poet Rumi.
A blast in a village mosque has killed at least four people and wounded nearly 40 others in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said on June 10.
President Barack Obama has approved giving the U.S. military greater authority to help Afghan forces battle the Taliban, including increased use of air strikes, AP and Reuters reported on June 9.
The U.S. government’s top watchdog on Afghanistan says the United States has wasted billions of dollars in reconstruction aid to Afghanistan during the past decade -- and renewed Taliban militancy now threatens the gains that were made.
Afghan officials say Taliban militants have killed 12 members of the country's security forces whom they had captured in recent ambushes in the eastern province of Ghazni.
When boxing legend Muhammad Ali is buried on Friday, people around the world will mourn -- RFE/RL asked his fans in Central Asia what he means to them.
Elliot Larson and his wife, Marty, worked in a medical facility in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, while raising a young family from 1970 to 1974. On many of their outings, they took a small Minolta camera, shooting slide film of weekends in the sun and trips to regions where today not even NATO soldiers can safely travel. The couple has kindly shared their pictures with RFE/RL, which are published here for the first time.
Although she has been without the use of her arms and hands from birth, Afghan teenager Rubaba learned to draw very well, clenching a pencil in her teeth. She specializes in portraits, and her latest muse is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan)
A journalist for the U.S.-based National Public Radio (NPR) and an Afghan translator have been killed while on assignment in southern Afghanistan.
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