In the films shot in Afghanistan, she achieves immediacy by working with real-scale architectural ruins. She also employs ... s destruction of the colossal Buddha statues at Bamiyan, and another ...

Despite grave world condemnation, Afghanistan's fundamentalist ruling Taliban are said to have used artillery and explosives on Friday to destroy two giant rock-hewn Buddha statues they decry as ...

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.

The destruction of monuments include two famous fifth-century statues of Buddha carved into a mountainside ... The Taliban rules about 95 per cent of Afghanistan. Switzerland has followed ...