Mustafa Sarwar is a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi in Prague.
Since 2015, nearly 170,000 Afghans have filed asylum applications in European Union countries. They comprise the second-largest group of asylum seekers after Syrians.
Amid strong skepticism, some Afghan experts see U.S. President Donald Trump’s affability toward Russian President Vladimir Putin as an opportunity to gain Moscow’s support for Afghan stability.
Afghan officials say a dangerous Pakistani network with links to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) militants has established a sanctuary in southern Afghanistan.
A powerful provincial governor and a key backer of the Afghan chief executive is now seen as trying to undercut his standing within Afghanistan’s national unity government by striking a new power-sharing deal with the president.
John Nicholson, the head of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, says he sees a continuation of U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan after President-elect Donald Trump’s administration assumes office next month.
Medical physicist Shakardokht Jafari was recently awarded a prestigious British award for developing a way of monitoring radiotherapy doses using inexpensive glass beads.
Afghan officials say leaders of the Taliban insurgency continue to operate out of hideouts and safe havens in neighboring Pakistan.
Women’s rights campaigners in Ghor say dozens of forced and child marriages take place every year.
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg tells RFE/RL that NATO will continue its presence in Afghanistan in support of the Afghan security forces as the country seeks to negotiate peace with various militant groups and build an economically viable future.
Afghan forces are trying to reverse recent Taliban gains in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz Province, which borders Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
In Afghanistan's northern Faryab Province, paramilitary forces are helping government security forces battle the Taliban. But these same armed groups are often preying on ordinary Afghans, too.
Activists in Afghanistan are calling on the government to pass a law banning the infamous ‘bacha bazi’ -- practices involving the sexual slavery of young boys and forcing them to dress as women and dance for men’s entertainment.
Kabul was booming until foreign troops left Afghanistan in 2014. Now the city is strapped with a burgeoning population and a faltering economy.
Hazara minority leaders say a decision to reroute an electricity power line away from their home province could mean an ‘end to cooperation’ in the power-sharing government.
The heinous murder of a teenage boy by kidnappers has shaken Afghanistan and seemingly united the government and insurgents in condemning the atrocity and promising justice.
An Afghan lawmaker appears to threaten his female interviewer with rape in a new documentary on the state of women's rights, and for that he is demanding an apology from whomever plotted against him by distributing the taped exchange.
Afghanistan's national unity government is undergoing trying times as it confronts defections, political opposition, and a major national assembly to decide the future political system for the country this year.
A dispute over the removal of huge portraits of the first vice president in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif might renew the rivalry between two strongmen who attempted cooperation and competition to shape northern Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's first vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum, is boycotting government business over President Ashraf Ghani's reluctance to appoint his loyalists to key posts and go ahead with his plans to create new combat units to fight the Taliban.
While supplying weapons to Kabul, Moscow is reaching out to its hard-line Taliban enemies in an effort to strike a covert alliance against the rise of the Islamic State group in Afghanistan.
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