There was a time when music would fill many of Kabul’s streets, wafting out of cafes and restaurants, seeping out of homes in ...

The Taliban in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province have destroyed 650 musical instruments and music-related items ...

KABUL: Taxi drivers in Afghanistan are turning on the tunes in their cars, defying a ban imposed by the Taliban government despite the fear of getting caught by morality police. The music that used to ...

BALTIMORE -- The melody was played on turquoise ukuleles, with children beating out the rhythm on miniature drums. “I feel peace when my family is safe,” sang the youngsters and their mothers, who are ...

Since taking control of the country in 2021, the Taliban has dismantled thousands of musical instruments and actively enforced ban on music.

A s the Taliban entered Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 15, 2021, Qudrat Wasefi, a resolute 22-year-old trumpeter, flung open the windows of his music school’s empty wood-paneled studio and started to ...

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. NPR ...

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. NPR ...

For more than five years, the music that once echoed through restaurants, cafes and shops across Kabul has largely disappeared. Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, public venues have been ...

Afghan taxi drivers are playing music in their cars despite it being banned by the Taliban. The drivers are risking punishment by the morality police. Music has been restricted to religious or ...