Under Taliban, thriving Afghan music scene heads to silence

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Taliban fighters seized Afghanistan in mid-August, two weeks before the U.S. and NATO withdrew their forces from the country after a 20-year military presence.“You cannot imagine how happy I am.

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Editors note: Hollie McKay’s latest special report for Deadline finds the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author negotiating the sometimes contradictory new realities for female journalists in Afghanistan since the Taliban’s return to power.

Get the latest parenting news sent straight to your inbox with our weekly newsletterAfghan refugees fleeing the Taliban have been promised shelter and support in Dumfries and Galloway after the council made a public pledge last week.Councillors from various political backgrounds put on a united front in offering a safe haven for families fleeing the crisis-torn country.Dee and Glenkens Councillor Dougie Campbell is a former director of the Scottish Refugee Council and mentor to refugees.At last

coronavirus pandemic, and some families now too fearful to work are selling off furniture to get by.“The current situation is oppressive,” said Muzafar Bakhsh, a 21-year-old who played in a wedding band. His family had just sold off part of its belongings at Kabul’s new flea market, Chaman-e-Hozari.

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Anna Marie de la Fuente Holding forth at a masterclass she delivered at the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Tabakalera venue on Tuesday Sept.

Ed Meza @edmezavarDirector Michael Steiner opens this year’s Zurich Film Festival with “And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead,” a timely thriller about a real-life Swiss couple captured by the Taliban while traveling through Pakistan in 2011.The film is sure to generate headlines in view of the recent Taliban victory in Afghanistan that followed the withdrawal of U.S. forces.

As told to In July, my younger sister and I booked last-minute tickets to fly from our homes in D.C. to our mother’s home in Kabul, Afghanistan. We wanted to see our family because, ever since the U.S.

iOS - Android Councillor Jim Logue, leader of North Lanarkshire Council, said: “The situation in Afghanistan is deeply worrying but through working with our colleagues in COSLA, we are looking forward to welcoming the first family by the end of September.“We will continue to welcome families in a considered approach to ensure we have available properties and services in place to support them.“North Lanarkshire has a proud and compassionate record of ensuring that people escaping terror are made

Afghanistan in a Scots council area. So far 18 volunteers from East Dumbartonshire have raised nearly £6,000 by walking the distance between Syria and Scotland which is just under 3,000 miles.

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Jennifer Garner is volunteering her time to help Afghan child refugees.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAfghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who is at the Venice Film Festival gap financing market with the documentary “Kabul Melody,” says the lives of more than 150 students of Kabul’s National Institute of Music (ANIM) are at risk after armed Taliban guards shuttered the school and smashed all the musical instruments inside.A few days after the Taliban occupied Kabul “they went to the school and smashed all the instruments,” says Mani who has been making a

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PARIS -- As a filmmaker, Shahrbanoo Sadat watched with fascination as Taliban fighters took over her city and terrified crowds animated the streets.