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Looters stole tens of thousands of artifacts from the National Museum of Afghanistan during the country’s civil war in the 1990s, and then thousands more were destroyed by the Taleban when they took ...

An Afghan who fought against Soviet forces still visits a museum celebrating the resistance, but, in keeping with rules by the Taliban authorities, the displays have undergone notable changes recently ...

In the Afghan city of Herat, the Museum of Resistance - also known as the Museum of Jihad - has reopened after changes by the country's Taliban rulers. The museum is dedicated to the mujahideen who ...

This collection consists of 22 oral histories documenting the history of the National Museum of Afghanistan during the career of Mr. Omara Khan Masoudi, director of the museum from 2001 to 2015. These ...

(AP) Looters stole tens of thousands of artifacts from the National Museum of Afghanistan during the country’s civil war in the 1990s, and then thousands more were destroyed by the Taliban when they ...

At first, it was a small museum in a nondescript office building in Kabul, with a seemingly mundane collection — like a 14-year-old's schoolbooks and black sandals. The teenager had died in Kabul in a ...

Former Soviet soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov came to Afghanistan to fight the mujahideen more than three decades ago. Today he has a new life as caretaker of a museum celebrating the jihadists’ victory ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Restoring Afghanistan's Buddhist artifacts that were destroyed by the Taliban 18 years ago is like working on a 1,500-year-old jigsaw puzzle, say conservators working on the latest ...