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KABUL — One of the most striking sights at the National Museum of Afghanistan these days isn't inside the museum, but by its front gates. Young, armed Taliban guards protect the entrance ...

Some experts hope the reopening of the museum in Kabul is a sign the Islamic regime will show greater tolerance toward art. Others worry it is all optics. By Anna P. Kambhampaty Under the watchful ...

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — More than 1,400 artifacts that had been protected from looters and civil war since 1999 at a museum-in-exile in Switzerland were handed over Saturday to the National Museum ...

The National Museum of Afghanistan is open again, though this time with an unpaid staff, Taliban guards and the occasional blackout. The Kabul museum's director, Mohammad Fahim Rahimi, told the ...

The Taliban now guard Afghanistan's national museum. The group has a poor record of preserving cultural artifacts and parts of the museum's collection are no longer on display.

Afghanistan’s isolation on the international stage, largely because of the Taliban’s restrictions on women and girls, has ...

Headlines coming out of Kabul this fall have been good news for Afghanistan's cultural heritage. In September, the U.S. Embassy announced the winner of the International Architectural Ideas ...

Taliban fighter Mansoor Zulfiqar, left, visits the National Museum of Afghanistan, in Kabul on Dec. 6, 2021. Petros Giannakouris / AP. In walking through the museum, ...