Peshawar is a haven for Afghan artists who fled from the Taliban, which has banned music. A new policy of deportations by ...

Afghan singer Goodar Zazai says he wept as he saw a recent video of the Taliban humiliating two local musicians and burning their instruments. Filmed near the border with Pakistan in the Zazai Aryub ...

Zohra Ahmadi rehearses with the Afghan Youth Orchestra in Braga, Portugal, on July 29. NEW YORK — The Taliban tried to silence them, at times violently. The musicians from the Afghan Youth Orchestra ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A month after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the music is starting to go quiet. The last time that the militant group ruled the country, in the late 1990s, it outright ...

The Taliban have intensified their cultural crackdown in eastern Afghanistan after authorities confirmed the public destruction of dozens of musical instruments in Nangarhar province, reinforcing the ...

The Taliban have occupied the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, turning its classrooms into dormitories - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File JEFF ...

This week, members of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music flew from Doha to Portugal, where they'll rebuild their school — and lives. They describe their escape from Kabul and future hopes.

A cacophony ranging from Asian string instruments to the delicate cadences of classical piano pours out of a two-storey building in central Kabul. A cacophony ranging from Asian string instruments to ...

Afghanistan's first and only music academy taught Afghan and Western music. It gained international fame. After the Taliban took over, students and faculty of the Afghanistan National Institute of ...

An Afghan musician holds a tabla during a portrait in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, September 16, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Bernat Armangue A month after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the ...