Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Taliban killed a famous Afghan folk singer on Saturday, a former interior minister said. Fawad Andarabi was reportedly dragged ...

An Afghan folk singer has been executed by the Taliban just days after the Islamic fundamentalist group declared that "music is forbidden in Islam," according to his family. Fawad Andarabi’s family ...

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, ...

This weekend, we’re thinking about the stories that we don’t often hear. An opera company that uplifts the voices of ...

THE LAST time Ahmad Fanoos performed in Afghanistan was at a lavish wedding in August 2021, days before America pulled out of its 20-year-long war against the Taliban. A well-known singer and former ...

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 ...