Bamiyan was an important commercial and monastic centre from the second century CE. It was a meeting point of Persian and ...

Starting at the birthplace of Buddhism, a writer traces how its teachings spread across Asia, transforming the continent ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's defense minister said that his country ran out of "patience" and considers that there is now an "open war" with Afghanistan, after both countries launched strikes following an ...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments over statues of two Catholic saints the mayor planned for a public safety building in Quincy. A lower court previously blocked the installation ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's military targeted and destroyed several Afghan Taliban posts in a remote southwestern region on Wednesday in what officials described as a response to “unprovoked aggression,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reimagining the 6th-century Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s sculpture stands ...

For the next year and a half, visitors to the ultra-modern Hudson Yards development on Manhattan’s far west side will be met by an icon of the ancient world. The fifth commission for the plinth on the ...

For much of the modern era, Central Asia – including Afghanistan and China’s western Xinjiang province – has been treated as a geopolitical periphery. Long viewed as an isolated buffer zone shaped by ...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday announced that the soldier who destroyed a statue of Jesus in Lebanon has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. On Sunday, an image of the appeared on social ...

A special panel’s investigation of the chaotic and deadly U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is nearly complete, with the Pentagon saying a final report is expected in the coming months. The Afghanistan ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The death toll from extreme weather that has triggered widespread flooding and landslides in many parts of Afghanistan has increased to at least 110, authorities said Monday, ...