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Mark Gatiss’ Sherlock is a modernized spin on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s book of the same name. The story revolves around a ...
Before PJ Harvey released Dry — her volcanic 1992 debut album of molten folk blues that launched an ... an oracle in the form of a dead lamb's eye mistaken for Elvis — will wash over all ...
Margate is a place of contradictions: gentrified and deprived, arty and unloved. We take a deep dive into the strangest town ...
This exploration opened my eyes to the rich ... instrument believed to have originated in Afghanistan and integral to Sufi and Kashmiri folk music – added a new dimension to my passion.
Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on Friday ... government’s interpretation of Islamic law – including “eye-for-an-eye” punishments known as qisas, allowing for the death ...
Tashkent’s transition from a security-oriented approach to a pragmatic, economy-first foreign policy in relation to Kabul is most evident in its engagement in northern Afghanistan. Over the last ...
Michael Hurley, a beloved underground singer-songwriter who emerged in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s, has died at age 83. “It is with a resounding sadness that the Hurley family ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Thursday that American national George Glezmann was on his way back to the U.S. after being released by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. Glezmann, an Atlanta ...
Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, seized on the detention of Mohammad Sharifullah to assert that Pakistan, not Afghanistan, offers ISKP safe havens.
Steeleye Span has been one of the most influential names in British roots music. Pioneers of folk-rock, Steeleye Span changed the face of folk music forever, taking it out of small clubs and into ...
In February 2020, they announced the Doha Accords — heavily skewed in the Taliban’s favour — virtually accepting the narrative that the Taliban were the representatives of Afghanistan ...