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News Afghanistan » Bamyan » History: Fears Mount Over The Future Of Afghanistan's Historic Bamiyan Valley

News channel or source: https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-bamiyan-fears-collapse-buddha-statues/32297553.html

Published on: Friday 10 March 2023

March 11 marks the anniversary of the destruction of Bamiyan’s sixth-century Buddha statues by the Taliban in 2001. According to experts, encroaching construction, negligence, and looting are ...

News Afghanistan » Bamyan » History: Should the Buddhas of Bamiyan Rise Again in Afghanistan?

News channel or source: https://hyperallergic.com/should-the-buddhas-of-bamiyan-rise-again-in-afghanistan/

Published on: Thursday 25 September 2014

Bamiyan Valley in 2010, with the hole where one of the Buddha statues was demolished (photograph by Afghanistan Matters/Wikimedia) After a reconstruction effort covertly built what appeared to be the ...

News Afghanistan » Bamyan » History: Afghanistan gunmen kill four in Bamyan Province

News channel or source: https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/05/afghanistan-gunmen-kill-four-in-bamyan-province/

Published on: Sunday 19 May 2024

Gunmen killed an Afghan citizen and three Spanish tourists in Bamyan province, central Afghanistan, on Friday evening, according to the Taliban’s Ministry of Interior Affairs. The attack also left ...

News Afghanistan » Bamyan » History: Iran: Bamyan representatives in Afghan return talks

News channel or source: https://www.unhcr.org/news/briefing-notes/iran-bamyan-representatives-afghan-return-talks

Published on: Thursday 29 January 2004

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Kris Janowski – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 30 January 2004 Four ...

News Afghanistan » Bamyan » History: Gunmen open fire and kill 4 people, including 3 Spaniards, in Afghanistan’s central Bamyan province

News channel or source: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/gunmen-open-fire-and-kill-4-people-including-3-foreigners-in-afghanistans-central-bamyan-province/

Published on: Thursday 16 May 2024

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Several gunmen opened fire in central Afghanistan late on Friday, killing at least four people, including three foreign nationals, a Taliban spokesman said. The Spanish Ministry of ...

News Afghanistan » Bamyan » History: Afghanistan’s Bamiyan on frontline of warzone tourism

News channel or source: https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/139012

Published on: Friday 24 July 2015

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — Trudging halfway up a jagged goat trail, guide Mohammad Ibrahim extolled the panoramic view — a vast, ancient landscape of russet-hued cliffs that is on the frontline of Afghan ...