Welcome to The Azadi Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that unpacks the key issues in Afghanistan. To subscribe, click here. I'm Abubakar Siddique, senior correspondent at RFE/RL's Radio Azadi.

Americans gathered in St. Peter’s Square on May 8 to celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff from the United States. Born Robert Francis Prevost on Chicago’s South Side ...

It was the ‘70s: hot steam rising off the sweet guitar riffs of Steely Dan, John and Yoko’s bed-in peace protests, and the ...

A mother and her 4-year-old child were killed and multiple others were injured after a crash caused a tractor-trailer to hit a home along I-70 in Claysville, Washington County, Sunday afternoon.

Architect-designer Nicholas Potts drew inspiration from the past yet ditched convention to render a Washington, DC, home ...

the midday Sunday blessing the pope delivers from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square. The new pope, Leo XIV, is scheduled to deliver his first such prayer on Sunday from the loggia where he ...

In the shade of a tree on a sunny day, Isac Matate set up a rickety bookstand in a ragged square that was once a beacon for ...

“I'm right here,” Iggy Pop says as our call starts. His voice is deep and gravelly, as you’d expect from decades of hard living. But it is also measured and unhurried, as you’d expect from ...

Sheffield was a city undergoing huge changes in the 1960s and 70s, as slum housing was torn down to make way for futuristic ...

It's a cloudy and mild start to the day with rain on radar. Temperatures this Monday afternoon are expected to be in the mid 70s across the Mid-South. Winds: 10 mph. LOOKING AHEAD: Temperatures ...