(2002 est. city pop 30,000). Bamian refers to a city, a pass, and a valley lying at the foot of the Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan, where, until recently, stood two huge carved statues of the Buddha, designated as world heritage monuments by...

Bamiyan Province (Persian: بامیان) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the centre of the country. Its capital is also called Bamiyan. Bamiyan is the largest town in the Hazarajat region of Afghanistan, and is the cultural...

Flooding and an avalanche have killed at least 51 people and destroyed hundreds of homes over the last 10 days, following warm weather and heavy spring rains across much of Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.The governor of the central Daykundi province said all the province's districts...

A NATO airstrike destroyed a Taliban command post in southern Afghanistan, killing a suspected senior militant leader, the alliance said Friday. Separately, an assailant gunned down an Afghan lawmaker who, under the former Taliban regime, oversaw the destruction of two Buddha statues carved into a...

U.S.-led coalition troops battling suspected militants in southern Afghanistan lobbed a grenade that destroyed a house and killed 15 militants as well as a woman and two children, the coalition said Monday.Meanwhile, weekend reports of other violence included the deaths of three policemen and a...

NATO's commander in Afghanistan said Friday that a battalion of U.S. troops will be sent to the country's insurgency-plagued south, where an airstrike on a Taliban command post killed a senior militant leader.Gen. David Richards said a battalion from the 10th Mountain Division will be...