Two decades after the two Buddha statues were destroyed by the Taliban, the Buddhist caves of Bamiyan are in a state of ruin.

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in early 2001 shocked the world and highlighted their hard-line regime, toppled soon after in a U.S.-led invasion. Now ...

It takes 10 hours by car to travel 90 miles on the nauseatingly bad road to the Bamiyan Valley. The first stretch of the highway is quite smooth—it was built recently to shuttle American troops ...

A video recorded recently in Afghanistan shows Taliban gunmen using the remnants of the Bamiyan Buddhas for target practice. The video is raising serious concerns about a pledge by the Taliban ...

Afghanistan is selling tickets to the ruins of recently-destroyed monuments, the Washington Post reported. The Taliban demolished 1,500-year-old Buddha in 2001 in a purge of non-Islamic art. Its ...

Twenty years after the Taliban blew up two famous Buddha statues, Afghans commemorated the tragic loss of their historical and cultural heritage on March 9 at a ceremony in the central Bamiyan valley.

Focusing on a refugee family temporarily living in caves that had housed 1,600-year-old Buddhist art -- until it was destroyed by the Taliban three years ago -- doc is a fine, human-scaled portrait of ...

By trying to cover its own inadequacies in terms of domestic and neighbourhood policies using India's alleged involvement, Pakistan is again playing the victim card. But why does India let these ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- The Afghan official in charge of looking after the archeological remains in Bamiyan Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage site, says they are threatened with complete annihilation.

For generations, Ghulam Sakhi and his family -- like many others in the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan -- took pride in the two giant Buddha statues for which their home was famous. The ancient ...

Ten years ago, the Taliban destroyed the great Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan, two giant statues that watched over the Bamiyan Valley for 1,500 years. Extensive studies of the rubble have revealed new ...

According to Buddhist belief, the human incarnation of Buddha gathered a group of 500 monks around him in 543 BC to bid them farewell. He asked the gathering three times whether there were any doubts ...