A popular Afghan singer has been missing for more than a month in Kabul, where she shot to fame with her performance on a ...

Students and faculty with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music flew last week from Doha to Lisbon, where they will start their new lives and reconstitute their celebrated academy in exile.

The Afghanistan National Institute of Music was a thriving school in Kabul. But the last time the Taliban was in control of the country, all music related activities were strictly forbidden.

The students of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music fled after the Taliban seized power. Now they are trying to remake their school, and their dreams, in Portugal.

On the tiled patio, a pair of musicians sit on a wine- and saffron-colored carpet, playing Afghan music on traditional instruments: a tabla (a pair of drums tuned to different pitches) and a ...

All-female orchestra was a symbol of change in Afghanistan Members fled or went into hiding after Taliban victory Some broke up instruments, burned documents Taliban have said women will have ...

A Taliban leader said that music will be banned in Afghanistan and women will need a male chaperone if they travel alone for three days or more, while saying the Taliban will “build the future.” ...

Since its founding in 2010, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music has provided unique music training to Afghan children. In 2013, the group made a triumphant visit to the U.S. This month ...

Mr. Nashenas’s own life and artistry speak to the Afghanistan he left behind, and one that could have been. There is a timelessness, a sense of continuity, to his music: poems penned half a ...

The Taliban tried to silence them, at times violently. The Afghan Youth Orchestra defiantly played on, and this week they will take the stage at Carnegie Hall.

Since its founding in 2010, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music has provided unique music training to Afghan children. In 2013, the group made a triumphant visit to the U.S. This month ...