NEW YORK — The Taliban tried to silence them, at times violently. The musicians from the Afghan Youth Orchestra have defiantly played on, and on Wednesday they took to one of the world’s most ...

The Taliban represent the worst of religious fascism that is drenched in extreme misogyny for the purpose of allaying their fear of temptations and achieving their fantastical desires to enjoy ...

Ms. Koofi is a former deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament. I was a first-year medical student at Kabul University when, on Sept. 26, 1996, Taliban fighters swept in and seized the capital.