Afghan tourists from Kabul visit the site that housed the famous Buddhas on October 6, 2021 in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images.

Afghanistan’s Art Scene Weighs in On Taliban Move to Ban Images of Living Things Cultural organizations are doing what they can to keep the nation’s powerful artistic representations alive ...

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People sit beside their tents in front of the ruins of a 1500-year-old Buddha statue, which was blown up by the Taliban in 2001, in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, March 2, 2023.

Photographer Rodrigo Abd, based in Lima, spent months on assignment in Afghanistan in the years after the dispersal of the Taliban government in 2001 and learned how to use a traditional Afghan “box ...

Hazara Shi’ite Muslims -- who are considered infidels by the hard-line Sunni Taliban -- make up a majority in Bamiyan and its eponymous capital. During its rule in the late-1990s and early 2000s ...

Bamiyan, about 60 miles west of the capital, was home to the glories of Afghan's rich history, of which the pair of towering, 1,500-year-old Buddhas was the crown.