Taliban militants spent the early part of March 2001 systematically dynamiting two of Afghanistan's greatest historical and cultural treasures: the Buddhas of Bamiyan. The massive statues were carved ...

The Taliban governor of Bamiyan in Afghanistan has been digging beneath the remains of the Bamiyan Buddhas in search of buried treasure. Afghan scholars are horrified by the news of further ...

I read with great sadness the Taliban’s claim that they have already destroyed most of the Bamiyan Buddhas, and their boast that whatever remained would soon be gone. As a young child growing up in ...

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 ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- Here is a reminder to someone with the initials A.B., who on March 8 climbed inside the cliff out of which Bamiyan's two giant Buddhas were carved 1,500 years ago. In a domed ...

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 ...

Bamiyan Valley in 2010, with the hole where one of the Buddha statues was demolished (photograph by Afghanistan Matters/Wikimedia) After a reconstruction effort covertly built what appeared to be the ...

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.

KABUL: Ten years after Afghanistan's ancient Bamiyan buddhas were blown up by the Taliban, there is still no agreement on whether the war-torn country's best-known cultural icons should be rebuilt. In ...

Earlier this month, the visuals at the Delhi press briefing of Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Foreign Minister of Taliban-led Afghanistan, said it all. While the Taliban flag was before him, behind him was a ...