Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai asked the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to extend and expand the mandate of multinational security forces in Afghanistan. Karzai made his remarks to the ...

Afghan archaeologists have discovered an ancient statue of Buddha in the capital Kabul that is likely to date from around the fifth century, the culture ministry said on Thursday. The statue, found at ...

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 ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered a 19-metre (62-foot) Buddha statue along with scores of other historical relics in central Afghanistan near the ruins of giant statues destroyed by the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's opposition said today the ruling Taliban have destroyed the two ancient Bamiyan Buddha statues in central Afghanistan, despite worldwide pleas to save them.

Two decades after the two Buddha statues were destroyed by the Taliban, the Buddhist caves of Bamiyan are in a state of ruin.

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 ...

On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the destruction of the giant Buddha statues of Bamiyan, in Afghanistan, by the then-ruling fundamentalist Islamic Taliban, the United Nations cultural chief today ...

By trying to cover its own inadequacies in terms of domestic and neighbourhood policies using India's alleged involvement, Pakistan is again playing the victim card. But why does India let these ...

BAMIAN, Afghanistan — A year after the Taliban blew up two towering ancient Buddha statues, Afghan interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai promised Tuesday to rebuild them, calling their destruction “a ...

Twenty years after being blasted out of Afghanistan's rugged central highlands, one of the country's famed Buddha statues made a brief virtual return Tuesday night as a three-dimensional projection ...