Ron Synovitz is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
As Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Fitr this weekend -- the breaking of the monthlong Ramadan fast -- precautions against the coronavirus are preventing some aspects of the Islamic holiday from being celebrated in the usual way.
A U.S. Air Force plane that crashed in Afghanistan this week had been designed to improve combat communications and "battlefield management" after a 2005 U.S. military disaster.
Woman are not the only victims of so-called "honor crimes" in Pakistan.
A court ruling says the Trump administration used a "tortured" interpretation of the law to justify life-threatening delays on visa applications from Afghans and Iraqis who helped the U.S. military.
Much has been written about Afghan girls who are forced to become child brides. But a painful story that few Afghans talk about is how boys also are being pushed into marriage at a young age.
Overwhelmed doctors at Kabul’s Emergency Hospital refused to operate on Salema until her mother could prove her injuries were from a battle, and not domestic violence.
An Afghan woman who secretly studied literature in Herat under the Taliban's rule fears the ongoing peace process with the militant group could open a floodgate for "radical Islamists."
An expert on Pakistan and India from the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs says the crisis between India and Pakistan has reached its peak and that both sides want to deescalate the situation.
An Afghanistan analyst says the Taliban has the ability to keep its side of a bargain reached with U.S. negotiators to start an Afghan-led peace process. But do all sides have the will to move forward?
A pending court case in Kazakhstan has provided new evidence that ethnic Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in western China are being rounded up in "reeducation camps."
Facing militant death threats for helping the United States, Afghans and Iraqis have taken the U.S. government to court for swift decisions on special immigrant visas.
Psychoanalyst and terrorism expert Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin says an often overlooked factor in the behavior of suicide attackers is how early child-rearing practices in so-called "shame-honor cultures" stunts the development of empathy.
A video journalist who was upset over colleagues being killed, a producer with an eye for social stories, and a trainee who believed in the power of the media. RFE/RL was hit hard on a deadly day for journalists in Afghanistan.
Frustrated by power cuts caused by Taliban attacks on far-away transmission towers, a growing number of Kabul residents are calling on the government to heed a Taliban demand for electricity in areas under the militant group's control.
With no officially sanctioned women's league to play in, a 16-year-old in Kabul has set up her own cricket team to get on the pitch.
A shocking honor beating video of a woman in northern Afghanistan reveals that the government's reliance on anti-Taliban militias for security in "secure" regions has unintended consequences.
The removal of a powerful Afghan governor raises security concerns among residents and lays bare party politics that could doom the current government.
Polio has almost been eradicated from Pakistan, but not quite. That's due in part to stories like Hamid Aziz's.
In a new strategy employed by Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, medical clinics and hospitals are being held hostage across an entire province for use as bargaining chips to put pressure on government authorities.
Tajik authorities approached more than 8,000 hijab-wearing women in Dushanbe in early August in a campaign to discourage "foreign" Islamic clothing. The state isnt telling women to take off their head scarves -- but authorities are telling women how to tie them.
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