KABUL (Reuters) - In a secluded gym in the Afghan capital, young women sway and jump in time with music in a Zumba dance fitness class, a new arrival in a country where dancing was once forbidden ...

In September, a few weeks after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, Ustad Farida Mahwash performed a song on stage at Yerba Center for the Arts in San Francisco about her home country’s ravaged ...

Svetlana clasps her hands together nervously and motions to a colleague to start the music. “Remember,” she calls to the six Afghan boys on stage. “Maintain your distance!” The traditional Afghan ...