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Afghanistan's historic Ariana Cinema, a cultural landmark that survived decades of war and political upheaval, has been demolished to make way for a new shopping centre in downtown Kabul. Demolition ...

Through the decades, downtown Kabul's Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still standing to entertain Afghans with Bollywood movies and American action ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still standing to entertain Afghans with Bollywood ...

Built during a cosmopolitan era in the 1960s, the Ariana closed when the Taliban took power, but it was still standing. Now it’s making way for a shopping mall. By Safiullah Padshah and Elian Peltier ...

A number of Afghan cultural figures and filmmakers consider the destruction of the historic Ariana Cinema by the Taliban government to be an erasure of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage. A shopping mall ...

A renowned Kabul cinema that for decades attracted the city's film fans is being demolished to make way for a shopping mall, AFP journalists saw Thursday. Built in the 1960s, the Ariana was pillaged ...

A renowned Kabul cinema that for decades attracted the city’s film fans is being demolished to make way for a shopping mall, AFP journalists saw Thursday. Built in the 1960s, the Ariana was pillaged ...