The painting of Bamiyan Buddha statues behind Afghan Minister during a press conference has gone viral on social media, with ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in early 2001 shocked the world and highlighted their hard-line regime, toppled soon after in a U.S.-led invasion. Now ...

At the meeting between Muttaqi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Hyderabad House, there were no flags of either ...

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For an aspiring tourist mecca, the Oriental Buddha Kingdom Theme Park in the lush mountains of Leshan is doing a pretty woeful job. Its main attraction, a 37-meter replica of one of the famed Bamiyan ...

On 27-30 September 2017, UNESCO, together with the Government of Afghanistan and Tokyo University of the Arts, convened a three-day closed technical meeting followed by a public Symposium in Tokyo, ...

The Associated PressBAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- A year after the Taliban blew up two towering ancient Buddha statues, Afghan leader Hamid Karzai promised Tuesday to rebuild them, calling their destruction ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The radical ruling Taliban movement began smashing all statues from Afghanistan's rich cultural past today, defying international appeals to save the ancient artifacts. Taliban ...

The India–Taliban meeting on October 10 drew attention for three major moments: a painting of the destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas above Taliban officials.

When the Taliban were done dynamiting the two colossal stone Buddhas of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, they partied hard. They danced, hooted and slaughtered a cow. But Syed Mirza Hussain wasn’t ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Snows are melting in central Afghanistan and roads to the town of Bamiyan have reopened after unseasonal rain -- and work on restoring the giant Buddha statues ...