They were among the first artists in the world to depict the Buddha in realistic, human form—a Hellenistic innovation from the days of Alexander the Great, who first marched through Afghanistan ...

For now, however, with the concomitant support of Afghanistan's economic and cultural ministries as well as an understanding with their Chinese foreign partner achieved, Mes Aynak's trove of Buddhist ...

Taliban authorities on Thursday freed US citizen George Glezmann after more than two years of detention, in a deal brokered ...

Two German-speaking Swiss men, Paul Bucherer-Dietschi and Bernard Weber, have established a consortium which plans to rebuild one of two obliterated Buddha statues in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley.