A collection of music from Afghanistan climbs to No. 12 on iTunes' World Music bestseller charts. Adam Gouttierre and Chris Becherer are two MBA students who recorded traditional music during a trip ...

American musician Larry Porter plays the rebab, a short necked lute with 18 strings. The traditional Afghan instrument has shaped Porter's music since the 1970s. "In those days there was no such ...

Editor’s note: In Hollie McKay’s latest special report for Deadline, the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author writes from ...

Qudrat Wasefi fled Kabul after the fundamentalist regime, with its violently enforced prohibition of music, returned to power ...

The Afghan Youth Orchestra with its founder, Ahmad Sarmast. (Courtesy of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music) Three years ago, nearly 300 young Afghan musicians, their teachers and staff from ...

Sept 3 – Negin Khpalwak was sitting at her home in Kabul when she got word that the Taliban had reached the outskirts of the capital. The 24-year old conductor, once the face of Afghanistan’s renowned ...

Young musician Ahmad Khan says doomsday arrived for him when the hard-line Taliban movement overran the Afghan capital, Kabul -- the conclusion of a dramatic sweep across the war-torn country that saw ...

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 ...