Afghanistan has marked two decades since the famous Bamiyan Buddhas were destroyed by the Taliban The ancient sandstone carvings in Afghanistan's Bamiyan valley were once the world's tallest ...

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Two German-speaking Swiss men, Paul Bucherer-Dietschi and Bernard Weber, have established a consortium which plans to rebuild one of two obliterated Buddha statues in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley.

MES AYNAK, Afghanistan--The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of meters below lies what is believed to be ...

signaling the probable destruction of Mes Aynak in a way that evokes the tragedy of Bamiyan—the region in central Afghanistan whose monumental 6th-century statues of the Buddha were deliberately ...

Hari Budha Magar, from Canterbury in Kent, said it was “absolutely amazing” to be made an MBE at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.