The Willandra Lakes precinct in NSW’s far southwest was one of the first World Heritage areas to be proclaimed in Australia, ...

Mortars and cannon were being used to destroy the Buddha statues in Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, reports from Kabul said. The destruction has drawn heated reactions from Arab and Muslim ...

It has been seven months since the medical student arrived in Scotland to pursue the education she had been cut off from in ...

Pittsburgh arts groups have begun formally responding to the turmoil their community has been experiencing under the second Trump administration.

Those who created the Bamiyan Buddha statues may have done so to show their gratitude ... everything is subjected to decay, destruction inclusive too. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ There are annual pilgrims who go to ...

In 2001 the Taliban destroyed the 6 th century statues of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, while in Mali in recent times the ancient city of Timbuktu has been attacked for the same reasons. For all the ...

Taliban authorities have detained two Britons, a Chinese-American and their Afghan translator, the interior ministry confirmed to AFP late Monday, after the daughter of the British couple called on ...

The Taliban in Afghanistan have been among the most hardline, stunning the world in 2001 by obliterating the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. In 2024, the Taliban’s morality ministry reported ...