Nimatullah Ahmadi is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan.
Victims of Afghanistan's long conflict have been excluded from peace talks aimed at ending the war. They warn that any peace settlement will be fragile if it does not address past crimes.
Residents and officials in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan say the Taliban is raking in considerable revenues by taxing illegal gold mining in the remote region bordering China, Pakistan, and Tajikistan.
An Afghan man has stabbed his teenage sister to death after she rejected a marriage proposal arranged by her family, in what appears to be the latest example of a so-called "honor" killing in Afghanistan.
Rising temperatures have already melted nearly half of the major glaciers in Badakhshan's Pamir and Hindu Kush mountain ranges.
In a sign of impending hard times for Afghan media outlets, a lack of resources has forced a female-led radio station in a remote Afghan town to close.
