Zalmay Khalilzad, speaking publicly for the first time since stepping down as the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, said the United States did not put enough pressure on Afghanistan’s president to share power with the Taliban.
An ethnic Hazara political leader and former member of Afghanistan's parliament says the bodies of eight orphan children who starved to death have been found on the west side of Kabul.
Afghan military pilots who fled to Tajikistan when the Taliban seized power in Kabul say the militant group is pressuring them to return to Afghanistan by threatening to kill their relatives.
Members of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have completed another joint counterterrorism training exercise in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan.
Jan Mersa Mohammad was a small child when his family fled the conflict in Afghanistan, making part of the journey to Europe on foot and by boat. Now 14 and settled in Budapest, Jan feels at home in his new country and dreams of making a career as a professional soccer player.
The Taliban is waging a deadly crackdown on members of Afghanistan's small community of Salafists, an ultraradical Islamic sect. The move comes as fighting intensifies between the Taliban and its rival, Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) militants, many of whom are Salafists.
Mursal Kohistani, a student from Parwan province in Afghanistan, spoke to RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi on October 20. In her words, although secondary and high schools are still open for girls, little is happening in them. (RFE/RL's Radio Azadi)
Locals say a protest that took place in Kabul on October 21 shows the increasing desperation of Afghan women, whose freedoms have been stripped away by the Taliban since the hard-line Islamists seized power on August 15.
Human Rights Watch accuses the Taliban of forcibly displacing hundreds of families across Afghanistan, mainly as a form of “collective punishment” against ethnic Shi’ite Hazaras and people associated with the former government.
A group of prominent Afghan women has urged the United Nations to pressure the Taliban to uphold its promises on women’s rights before deciding who should fill the country’s seat at the world body.
Pakistan's foreign minister has visited Kabul for the first time since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, pledging to help its neighbor avoid an economic collapse.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is considering removing the Taliban from its list of extremist organizations as it expands engagement with the new rulers in Kabul.
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