Mustafa Sarwar is a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi in Prague.
As major political factions and strongmen unite in a broad coalition to challenge Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in the elections, the resignation of key confidante Hanif Atmar adds to Kabul’s challenges as it reels from bold Taliban attacks and threats from the Islamic State (IS) militants.
NATO’s senior civilian representative in Afghanistan says the transatlantic alliance is committed to Afghanistan until it succeeds in creating peace and lasting stability in the country.
Atta Mohammad Noor discusses some of the accusations and controversies surrounding him. He also weighed in on major issues and his future ambitions.
Authorities in Afghanistan say some 13 million Afghans in 20 provinces are affected by drought.
Civilians in the beleaguered Afghan capital have called on the Taliban and the Afghan government to cease hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when all adults observe a fast from dawn to dusk.
General John Nicholson is the longest-serving top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. In an interview with Radio Free Afghanistan, he weighed in on the various aspects of the struggle in a country where peace and stability has so far evaded the U.S.-led international effort.
An interview the U.S. ambassador to NATO says the alliance is committed to Afghanistan until its people have the right conditions to build their country with freedom and equality of life.
Unlike previous years in which tens of thousands of Afghans easily crossed into Europe from Turkey, Ankara now seems determined to stop the flow of Afghans seeking asylum or better economic opportunities in European Union nations.
Impunity, weak institutions, and a lack of accountability have prompted more than 1 million Afghans to submit statements on alleged atrocities to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is still weighing whether to initiate a war crimes investigation.
Their growing Taliban influence in Badakhshan is now prompting concerns that the province will become a bastion for regional terrorism because it borders Pakistan, China, and Tajikistan.
Thousands of Afghan civilians who have fled persecution by Islamic State (IS) militants in a remote province of northern Afghanistan.
Afghan special forces now conduct most of the fighting for Afghanistan’s estimated 320,000 security force.
General John Nicholson, the top U.S. Army commander in Afghanistan, says the Taliban cannot win on the battlefield in Afghanistan. In an interview with RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan, Nicholson sounded upbeat about the chances of pressuring the insurgents into reconciliation.
The family of a 106-year-old Afghan woman, an asylum seeker in Sweden, says she is now fighting for her life while they await a decision about her fate in a Swedish appeals court after authorities rejected her asylum application.
An intensifying political rivalry between two leading Afghan Islamist movements now poses a threat to the country’s political stability and might undermine U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy for Afghanistan.
A budding rivalry between one of Afghanistan’s most powerful politicians and his previously little-know adversary is rapidly transforming into a showdown between two of the country’s most powerful political organizations attracting a sizeable following from among the nation’s largest ethnic groups.
Ghulam Hussein Anwari, a local anti-Taliban commander in Sayad district of northern Sari Pul Province, says the Taliban killed his father and a number of other relatives in Mirzawalang village.
Zolfiya Akbari’s future hangs in the balance as she awaits her asylum interview in Sweden that will decide whether she can stay or will have to return to Afghanistan.
Will an increase in international troops numbers reverse the Taliban’s gains in Afghanistan over the past two years?
German diplomat Cornelius Zimmermann, NATO’s senior civilian representative in Afghanistan, says that after thwarting eight major Taliban attacks on various provincial capitals last year, the Afghan security forces are capable of preventing the insurgents from overrunning major population centers this year.
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