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Islands on MSNThe Most Iconic Tourist Attractions That Don't Exist AnymoreWhether due to natural disasters or thanks to the destructive tendencies of mankind, these iconic cultural touchstones no ...
Taliban Information and Culture Minister Mullah Qudratullah Jamal said centers where the campaign had been unleashed included Bamiyan province -- site of two soaring statues of the Buddha hewn ...
Today the destruction continues apace, this time in the name of modernization as local governments often choose concrete over culture.
Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to reaffirm the ...
Peter and Barbie Reynolds were arrested on Feb. 1, their children told U.K. news outlets. The couple had run an education company in Afghanistan for almost two decades.
A British couple in their 70s who run education programs in Afghanistan have lost contact with their family after being detained by the Taliban early this month, their children say.
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 monumental Buddhas that had stood for 1,500 years. Now ...
KABUL, Afghanistan — A former regional governor who oversaw the destruction of two massive 1,500-year-old Buddha statues during the Taliban’s reign was elected to the Afghan parliament last ...
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