Nusrat Parsa is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan in Kabul.
Though not involved in the current war between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh, Kabul supports Baku. For Afghans, the current war has revived memories of their participation in the last major war in that territory nearly 30 years ago.
Sardar Gurbachan Singh Ghazniwal, 50, always considered Afghanistan his homeland. He braved all kinds of threats during his country’s four-decade-long war but resisted joining members of his country’s tiny Hindu and Sikh minority community in fleeing Afghanistan.
A controversy is growing in Afghanistan after a healer claimed he has found a cure for treating COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, which has killed more than 370,000 people worldwide in the ongoing pandemic.
Based on the current status of women in Taliban-controlled regions, it might mean that women will have token access to employment in essential jobs such health workers or teachers. They will, however, be denied leadership roles and will have to work in strict gender segregation.
The families of Taliban combatants and Afghan soldiers killed in Afghanistan’s seemingly unending war are hoping their country will finally see peace.
A budding doctor who came to Iran on a medical scholarship has been working to save coronavirus patients since volunteering at one of the country's biggest hubs of COVID-19 care.
RFE/RL gained exclusive access to a makeshift clinic west of Kabul in an area controlled for years by Taliban militants. Despite past suspicions about health workers dealing with epidemics like polio, some insurgents appear to be taking the threat from COVID-19 seriously.
Authorities in Afghanistan have announced sweeping measures to shut down the capital, Kabul, which is also the country’s largest city.
A range of hard-line Islamist groups including the ultra-radical Islamic State (IS) are attempting to recruit on Afghan university campuses to turn the seats of higher learning into sanctuaries and breeding grounds for their violent campaigns and revolutionary ideologies.
With the April 20 Afghan presidential vote still months away, some candidates have announced their intention to run for the presidency while others are jockeying hard to form the most formidable coalition or come up with a strong ticket.
Thousands of Afghan migrants in Iran are returning home amid an economic crisis that has seen unemployment soar and the value of Iran's national currency plummet.
In rural Afghanistan, the Taliban have now banned adolescent girls from getting an education after forcing some schools to close and imposing their own curriculum on others.
A shocking video shows a young, burqa-clad Afghan woman brutally beaten by a mob that included her own relatives.
An Afghan bride has been killed and several others wounded after security guards shot at her wedding convoy, allegedly mistaking celebratory gunfire for an armed assault.
Convicted drug dealers, murders, rapists, and insurgents are locked away in Afghanistan’s biggest prison, secured behind massive iron gates and surrounded by tall walls lined with barbed wire.
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.
