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.

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 ...

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 ...

When the Taliban were driven from power in 2001, they left behind a broken country and an infamous act of destruction: reducing to rubble two... Preserving Memory of Afghanistan's Giant Buddhas ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- The world mourned last year when the hard-line Taliban regime, decrying false idols, blew up the priceless, 15-centuries-old Buddha statues hewn into a cliff here. But for the ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — They stand like missing hearts carved out of the mountain's chest, abandoned chambers where ancient wonders of the world once gazed placidly. It's been nearly 10 years since the ...

For an aspiring tourist mecca, the Oriental Buddha Kingdom Theme Park in the lush mountains of Leshan is doing a pretty woeful job. Its main attraction, a 37-meter replica of one of the famed Bamiyan ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The radical ruling Taliban movement began smashing all statues from Afghanistan's rich cultural past today, defying international appeals to save the ancient artifacts. Taliban ...

Last Monday the ruling council of the Taliban issued an edict to destroy all the statues in Afghanistan. Included in this order are numerous historically priceless pieces in national museums and two ...

The ruins of Shahr-i-Gholghola — variously known as the City of Silence, the City of Noise or the Cursed City — tower above the Bamiyan plains of central Afghanistan, a single watchtower left of what, ...