When Afghanistan banned girls from singing in public, one young girl refused to stay silent. Nila Ibrahimi recorded a simple song that quickly became the voice of a growing movement, inspiring girls ...

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At 15 years of age, Sonita Alizadeh was about to be sold as a bride. Her marriage would help fund a bride for her brother. This was not the first time. When she was 10 years old, her family had also ...

For nearly five years, dozens of Afghanistan’s women soccer players have lived in exile — scattered across Australia, the United States and Europe — unable to officially represent their country’s ...

The Afghan Whigs return today with their first original song in four years, after sharing a pair of covers a few months back. “House of I,” produced and mixed by Greg Dulli and Christopher Thorn, ...

An Afghan immigrant who worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan died less than 24 hours after being detained in Texas by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a U.S. advocacy group and a family ...

In January 2025, Seema received an email from the International Organization for Migration saying that her flight from Pakistan to the United States, which she and her family were booked on after ...

Peshawar is a haven for Afghan artists who fled from the Taliban, which has banned music. A new policy of deportations by Pakistan threatens this community of exiles. By Elian Peltier Visuals by Asim ...

THE ACTIONS OF ONE PERSON. IT’S A KIND OF WORRYING FOR THE NOT ONLY ME, FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY. AS AN AFGHAN, BUC-EE’S MALACHURUM HAS LIVED IN THE U.S. FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, COMING HERE TO WORK ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...