A special concert supporting Afghan musicians, featuring a 100+ member orchestra and rubab artist Qais Essar, will take place ...

EXCLUSIVE: Afghan Star is a music talent format that ran for 15 seasons in Afghanistan and shephered in a cultural revolution in the country. Launched four years after the fall of the Taliban, the ...

Soon after seizing power in Afghanistan, the Taliban outlawed music and publicly beat and humiliated musicians. Now the militant group is intensifying its clampdown on Afghans playing and listening to ...

KABUL, August 15 (UNHCR) - His songs evoke the harsh beauty of his native Afghanistan, a country he fled more than 12 years ago, but they were composed in a green and tidy suburb of Toronto, Canada, ...