A key maxim of news reporting is to tell, not become it. Nowhere is that tension more pronounced than for Afghanistan’s TOLO TV. After years of threatening the media, the Taliban has begun to openly ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Afghan commercial TV network Tolo TV has upgraded its Broadcast Traffic Systems (BTS) traffic ...

Kabul-based Tolo TV has made a name for itself reporting independent news and putting on hugely popular entertainment shows. But in the last few months the network has itself become the news story.

In the opening scene of the documentary film The Network, journalist Ahmad Shafi describes watching a public execution in Kabul during the Taliban regime: "That had become the only entertainment in ...

“We are the canary in the coal mine,” says Saad Mohseni, the chief executive of Tolo TV, Afghanistan’s leading television network. Its brave journalists and programmers are still breathing, but ...

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 ...

As Taliban fighters entered Kabul on the evening of August 15, executives at Afghanistan's biggest independent TV network had a tough decision to make: stay on-air or go dark. Tolo kept broadcasting, ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban says it was behind a bomb attack targeting TV station workers that left seven people dead in the Afghan capital, months after promising to exact revenge for what it ...

A bomb targeting TV station workers in the Afghan capital killed at least seven people and wounded more than two dozen others Wednesday, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility ...