From one of the townhouses comes the sound of music. Inside, there's a bright classroom where students are practicing Afghan instruments — drums called tablas and dhols, a plucked string ...

who play a mix of Western and traditional Afghan instruments. They risk their lives with every note. At a school performance about two years ago, Institute founder Dr. Ahmad Sarmast was almost ...

Nerves and excitement filled the air as the students of music practiced playing their instruments: guitars, violins, flutes, clarinets, trumpets, saxophones and traditional Afghan instruments ...

Nerves and excitement filled the air as the students of music practiced playing their instruments: guitars, violins, flutes, clarinets, trumpets, saxophones and traditional Afghan instruments ...

The Taliban on Monday burned musical instruments worth thousands of dollars ... expressed his concern about the Afghan people's lack of access to artistic freedom, noting that the Taliban's ...

Photos recently appeared in the media showing piles of musical instruments reduced to ashes: guitars, sitars, tanburs and rubabs—the rubab, a national symbol of Afghan identity—among them.

Musicians faced threats, raids, and the destruction of their instruments. “Our homes were searched for what we had there,” says Faiz Muhammad Sakhki, an Afghan musician now living in Peshawar.

Afghan music school falls silent under Taliban ... A similar bonfire of instruments was organised by the Taliban on 19 July. Its government posted photos of the blaze on Twitter at the time ...