They parked up among some bombed-out ruins, assuming that they had been rumbled.

The landing was smooth as silk in a city still partly in bombed-out ruins.

The bombed-out ruins of a village lay next to a modest river.

(One amused himself by using a safe-deposit box in the bombed-out ruins of the old central post office.)

Then he gestures at the bombed-out ruins around the church and says, that is what the enemy did!

New glass towers soar beside bombed-out ruins.

Some 50,000 civilians remain trapped in the city's bombed-out ruins, with Russian authorities declaring they can no longer flee to safety.

The sprawling Kabul National Museum complex has recently reopened for special exhibitions, even though most buildings remain bombed-out ruins.

Most had last marched through the bombed-out ruins of Kirovabad.

And I was astonished to find, amid the bombed-out ruins of Kabul, an artistic community that was not only optimistic but exuberant.