Buddhism in Afghanistan

Japanese researchers have crafted a "super clone" of an Afghan mural destroyed by the Taliban, using a mix of traditional and digital techniques that they hope will salvage the work's "spirit" for future generations.

At least 16 people have died in an attack on a construction company in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. Nine were injured, BNT reported.

The attack has begun with suicide blasts committed by two terrorists at the entrance of the company building. Then three armed men rushed inside and were killed by the security forces.

BBC - A suicide bombing in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad has killed at least 19 people, most of them members of the country's Sikh minority.

Police said they had been travelling in a vehicle to meet President Ashraf Ghani, who is visiting Nangarhar province, when the bomber struck.

At least six civilians were killed when militants detonated bombs and stormed a government building May 13 in an ongoing assault in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, officials said.

One of the earliest trading routes in history, and the one which had the greatest impact on humanity, the Silk Road is one of the strongest cultural connections between China and Greece.

Taliban insurgents detonated two powerful truck bombs outside the office of Afghanistan's spy agency and a police compound in the central town of Ghazni on Sept. 4, killing 18 people and wounding around 150, the provincial governor said.