Kateryna Bankova joined RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service following the Russian invasion in February 2022. She studied at Mechnikov Odesa National University and has worked in journalism since 2017. She ...

Mira Jan lost his home, crops, and livestock in the devastating floods that have struck large swaths of Afghanistan. "Our house was swept away by the raging floods," Jan, a farmer in the eastern ...

RFE/RL's Radio Azadi is one of the most popular and trusted media outlets in Afghanistan. Nearly half of the country's adult audience accesses Azadi's reporting on a weekly basis.

Witnesses say dozens of people, including women and children, have been killed in eastern Afghanistan by Pakistani air strikes. The bombings took place overnight on April 16 in border areas in Khost ...

A part of the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan tasked with enforcing adherence to strict Islamic fundamentalism has ordered all amusement parks in the capital to be segregated by gender. The ...

Traces of bullets and Negar's blood are still visible on the walls and doors of her family home, a daily reminder of the night gunmen came for the expecting mother, wife -- and former Afghan ...

Officials in Dushanbe say they've received reports that Tajik militants who fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan are now making plans to cross the border into Tajikistan. An official at ...

DUSHANBE -- Tajikistan has awarded posthumously two former Afghan political figures, Ahmad Shah Masud and Burhanuddin Rabbani, with the country's highest honor, the Order of Ismoili Somoni. Tajik ...

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan and Tajikistan have signed several accords to boost ties between the two nations, including defense and armaments. "It is very important that our defense cooperation develops," ...

Mohammad Ayaz lost two family members last summer in a clash with a rival family over an irrigation channel in southeastern Afghanistan. Ayaz lives near Gardez, the capital of Afghanistan’s ...