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.

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 ...

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 ...