AFP Bamiyan - The ancient caves lining the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan were originally used by Buddhist monks for meditation and retreat. Carved into dun-coloured cliffs, hundreds of ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Authorities of the counter-narcotics department have destroyed 10.5 tons of illegal drugs in central Afghanistan's Bamiyan province, the provincial police ...

KABUL 2011 (AFP) - Ten years after Afghanistan's ancient Bamiyan Buddhas were blown up by the Taliban, there is still no agreement on whether the war-torn country's best-known cultural icons should be ...