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 ...

KABUL -- Barack Obama once pumped up a presidential campaign rally with Celebration by Kool and the Gang. John McCain (controversially) rocked a few events with John Mellencamp's Our Country. The ...

Along with the growing humanitarian crisis, Afghanistan's rich musical culture is under threat - Copyright Matangi Tonga/AFP Mary Lyn FONUA Along with the growing ...

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, ...

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 ...

Zohra Ahmadi rehearses with the Afghan Youth Orchestra in Braga, Portugal, on July 29. NEW YORK — The Taliban tried to silence them, at times violently. The musicians from the Afghan Youth Orchestra ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...