The melody was played on turquoise ukuleles, with children beating out the rhythm on miniature drums. “I feel peace when my ...

In defiance of the Taliban’s ban on music, a group of young musicians from Afghanistan risked it all to keep their country’s ...

BRAGA, Portugal — Collected from a family gravesite shortly before she left Kabul, the rocks and dirt in a tiny plastic ...

This is what students and staff at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) are now facing, after the Taliban said they would ban music following their takeover of the country.

The Taliban have burned musical instruments in Afghanistan, claiming music "causes moral corruption". Thousands of dollars worth of musical equipment went up in smoke on a bonfire on Saturday in ...

Afghanistan has a strong musical tradition and a thriving pop music scene -- now cowed into silence by the Taliban’s rise.

Fred Smith, nicknamed 'The Singing Diplomat", who has served in Afghanistan talks about a collection of his songs reflecting his feeling about the situation in Afghanistan and the misery of its people ...