Freshta Jalalzai is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan.
The horrific beating and burning to death of a 27-year-old Afghan woman five years ago today in the very heart of Kabul by a mob of angry men still shocks the senses in a country where women are fighting for basic rights.
An RFE/RL correspondent who grew up under the Taliban regime wonders what the return of the Taliban might be like under Afghanistan's conditional peace deal.
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.
Officials in Afghanistan’s northwestern province of Faryab say a young woman in a remote village has had her nose cut off by her husband.
The Afghan government says Taliban leader Mullah Omar's absence will pave the way toward peace. But skeptics counter that his death could in fact complicate the peace process.
Nine Afghan employees of a government development program, including a woman, have been killed by militants who attacked their guesthouse in a remote village of northern Afghanistan's Balkh Province.
The winner of the 2014 Anna Politkovskaya Award says Islamic State militants are raping and selling Yazidi women and that the human rights situation in Iraq is deteriorating.
