After years of tuning into Tolo programming for hard-hitting news and the exploits of their favorite soap-opera character, Afghans are seeing a stripped-down and covered-up version of news and ...
Over the past 20 years, America and its allies in Afghanistan helped finance and train a new generation of Afghan film and TV professionals. Last summer, amid the rapid and chaotic U.S. military ...
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned a violent attack by a parliamentarian’s armed supporters on a crew sent by the privately-owned Tolo TV station to cover a demonstration in Kabul on ...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Fear accompanies reporter Banafsha Binesh from the moment she leaves her Kabul home each morning for the newsroom at Afghanistan’s largest television station. It starts with ...
Male TV broadcasters stood by female colleagues by covering their faces on TV. LONDON -- The burqa mandate is back in Afghanistan, and, with it, a wave of disappointment and distress taking over the ...
The Afghan government is trying to control media coverage of the war against Taliban insurgents, government corruption and the growing drug trade. A document was dropped off recently at the offices of ...
KABUL, AfghanistanKABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have released three employees of Afghanistan’s largest television station who were detained over a report that the country’s new rulers had banned ...
Afghan university professor Faizullah Jalal has appeared in debates on Afghanistan’s most popular television channels for years, earning a reputation as an outspoken critic of the country’s leaders.
Kabul, Afghanistan — Taliban intelligence men arrested three staff members of TOLO TV, one of Afghanistan's largest television stations, a channel executive said Friday. The country's new rulers ...
An Afghan driver is seen through the shattered windshield of a car at the site of a suicide attack near the Russian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday. A suicide car bomb attack close to the ...
(Adds UN comment) By Terry Friel KABUL, April 18 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's attorney-general, accused by critics of regularly breaking the law, has raided Tolo television, one of the country's most ...
For more than two decades, the U.S. helped train hundreds of Afghans to work in the local entertainment sector. Now, international producers have banded together to help former colleagues who are ...