The arts and cultural sector in Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented crisis, as the simple act of artistic expression has now effectively been criminalised by the Taliban. While the international ...

Afghan female artists refuse to be silenced. Despite Taliban bans on music and art, they work in exile to keep their cultural ...

UN-Habitat says climate change and unplanned urban growth are endangering Afghanistan’s historic neighborhoods, undermining ...

Kamal Ud-Din Behzad's Miniature Style Registered By UNESCO As World Heritage Under Afghanistan's Name. Kamal ud-Din Behzad's ...

Remains of Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 seen on March 5, 2021. WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images Milley’s intimations that the United States may soon collaborate with the Taliban ...

Tim Doescher: From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Doescher and this is Heritage Explains. Doescher: It will be hard to forget the scene at the Kabul International Airport in late summer of 2021.

The simple stone facade of the Yu Aw Synagogue in Herat, a city in western Afghanistan, conceals an elaborate interior, including a blue, hand-painted dome that has in recent years been painstakingly ...

Amid the ongoing unrest in Afghanistan following the Taliban's latest takeover of the country, UNESCO has called for the preservation of Afghanistan's cultural heritage, including its two UNESCO World ...

This week, the world watched in horror as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, whose efforts to usurp the country have led to the takeover of Kabul, Lashkar Gah, Tirin Kot and other provincial capitals.

More than 22,000 ancient cultural treasures from Afghanistan, feared lost or destroyed after decades of war and Taliban rule, have been taken out of dusty crates and safes in Kabul and inventoried for ...

WASHINGTON—James Carafano, vice president of The Heritage Foundation's Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, and E.W. Richardson Fellow, and Luke Coffey, director of Heritage's ...

Officials in Afghanistan are desperately trying to save an archaeological treasure: an ancient city estimated more than 1,000 years old that was recently uncovered when thieves were arrested with ...