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

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 ...

As a result, the fledgling music scene which developed after America ousted the Taliban in 2001 has dissipated. Local radio stations no longer play Afghan music programmes; the likes of “Afghan ...

Nearly 300 young musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives as the Taliban took power. NPR caught up with them during their U.S. tour, ...

NEW YORK — The Taliban tried to silence them, at times violently. The musicians from the Afghan Youth Orchestra have defiantly played on, and on Wednesday they took to one of the world’s most ...

Music is a source of self-expression, connection, celebration, solace, transcendence, empathy and joy. Yet the Taliban see it as a profound threat to its extremist ideology, an un-Islamic practice.

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 ...

Three years ago, nearly 300 young Afghan musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives after their country fell again to the Taliban.

Nearly 300 young musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives as the Taliban took power. NPR caught up with them during their U.S. tour.