Taliban desperate for money, selling tourist tickets to Afghan monuments it destroyed
From the Two brothers reunite after deadly shipwreck near Greece, and more of today's top videos series
The Taliban are in desperate need of money, to the point they are selling tickets to tourists to visit ancient monuments that they themselves blasted to pieces. The report from the Washington Post says that’s the case for a Taliban 1,500-year-old Buddha that got demolished in 2001 in a purge of non-Islamic art. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.
As featured on
Watch the moment a Syrian man finds his brother among shipwreck survivors in Greece, what's …
