# Amu TV

> Amu TV is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in United States. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Balanced**.

- **Domain:** amu.tv
- **Website:** https://amu.tv
- **Country:** United States
- **Region:** Asia
- **Language:** Dari and Pashto broadcast; English, Dari and Pashto web editions
- **Editorial position on TOLD:** Balanced
- **Founded:** 2022 (digital launch 1 August 2022; satellite channel 3 May 2023)

## About

Amu TV beams into Afghanistan by satellite each evening from a Virginia office park, run by the journalists the Taliban drove out. Its schedule pairs women's education, morality-police arrest counts and Taliban factional rifts with the music and dubbed dramas banned on the ground. One of the fullest running accounts of life under the Emirate is produced almost entirely outside it, on grants from the government that left.

## Profile

- **Ownership:** Operated by Eye Media Group LLC, a for-profit Virginia company incorporated on 3 February 2022 and owned by its founders, the exiled journalists Lotfullah Najafizada, previously head of TOLOnews, and Samiullah Mahdi. No board of directors or trustees is published.
- **Funding:** About two million dollars in private seed capital, a 460,000 dollar United States Institute of Peace cooperative agreement running to July 2025, reported National Endowment for Democracy support of undisclosed size, and public donations. A 2022 public promise of funding transparency has not been kept.
- **Focus areas:** Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women's rights and education, press freedom, Taliban factional disputes, humanitarian and migration reporting, general news and sport


## What the position means

TOLD classifies what an outlet publishes over time, based on ownership, funding
and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a
ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position.
State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled.

## Latest headlines

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- [Inside the final 15 days of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan](https://amu.tv/251364/) — 2026-08-31T09:42:52.000Z
- [Fuel price surge squeezes drivers, residents in Badghis](https://amu.tv/251343/) — 2026-08-31T07:24:24.000Z
- [Five years since last US troops left Afghanistan](https://amu.tv/251341/) — 2026-08-31T06:37:39.000Z
- [Amu TV 8pm News 30 August 2026](https://amu.tv/251332/) — 2026-08-30T19:25:54.000Z
- [Civilian killed in Taliban infighting in Badakhshan, sources say](https://amu.tv/251296/) — 2026-08-30T10:33:16.000Z
- [20 Afghan nationals executed in Iran this year, rights groups report](https://amu.tv/251291/) — 2026-08-30T07:34:39.000Z
- [US deports 12 Afghan nationals to Central African Republic](https://amu.tv/251289/) — 2026-08-30T06:00:07.000Z
- [Sources say Taliban shot two young men in north, displayed their bodies](https://amu.tv/251277/) — 2026-08-29T13:40:17.000Z

## Assessment note

Latest assessment: 2026-07-28. Generated with TOLD Source Prompt Brief v1.2.7. TOLD summarizes framing patterns and third-party classifications; it does not assess factual accuracy, intent, or legitimacy. External classifications: 11 (4 themes).

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