It is also common for there to be gaps in the laws themselves or their implementation while certain circumstances may place a country's heritage under specific vulnerabilities. Thus, alongside state ...

Israeli forces are unceasingly bombing Gaza, including its hospitals and all civilian sites, even as vague reports of “ceasefire talks” are ...

Researchers from Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates, working with regional and international collaborators, have ...

The mountains of Jilu with the village of Nahra (Kapaklı/Kapalıdere) in the foreground. On the peak opposite it can be seen ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

Twenty-odd years ago, the West’s ‘understanding’ of Iraq was shaped to a large extent ... Ethno-religious map of Syria In Syria, eight decades of independence (more than five of them under ...

The Middle Eastern country had been ruled by outside powers and dictators for centuries before its revolution was realized.

Caption: Nabil Hawara spent two decades as a political prisoner in Syrian prisons under the regime of Hafez al-Assad, facing torture every day. Now living in Montreal, he was released in 1995 and ...

For years, Syria was a fabled destination for cultural holidays. Now operators believe Britons could return as soon as next ...

Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Archaeologists in Iraq excavated a 2,600-year-old temple and found shrines, a stone monument and written tablets, photos show ...