BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of Syrian insurgents fanned out inside Aleppo in vehicles with improvised armor and pickups, deploying to landmarks such as the old citadel on Saturday, a day after ...

During a family vacation to Syria in 2009, architectural photographer Peter Aaron captured many of the country's landmarks—historic mosques, Roman ruins, ancient citadels. Just two years later, the ...

Ongoing conflict in Syria has given looters the opportunity to run free among the country's most valuable archaeological sites, new satellite imagery shows. The American Association for the ...

UNESCO, the United Nations organization responsible for identifying significant cultural landmarks around the world, says all six of the Syrian UNESCO World Heritage sites have been destroyed or ...

An email sent on behalf of Syria’s antiquities chief ... ISIS blew it up on the pretext of “removing the landmarks of polytheism,” the monitoring group said. On Sunday, the observatory ...

Idlib, SANA-Cultural initiatives carried out by youth in forced displacement camps in Idlib Governorate were the focus of ...

Every war takes its toll on the surrounding area, inflicting not just loss of life but damage to the economy and infrastructure — and in a country like Syria, monuments that have stood for ...

BEIRUT — Thousands of Syrian insurgents fanned out inside Aleppo in vehicles with improvised armor and pickups, deploying to landmarks such as the old citadel on Saturday, a day after they ...

Following the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, experts are turning their attention to the country’s war-torn heritage sites, hoping to restore these treasures and revive a tourism industry ...

UNHCR/Christopher Herwig A recreation of the Citadel of Aleppo, an iconic Syrian historical site. UNHCR/Christopher Herwig Former interior designer Ismail Hariri fled Syria in 2013 with his family.

Ubelmann’s grandfather was an architect who restored bombed churches in France after World War II and Ubelmann sees Iconem’s work in Syria in a similar vein: preserving the country’s heritage and ...

The image of a girl with a balloon will be projected onto various international landmarks on 13 March, among them the Eiffel Tower and Nelson's Column. The new image will promote #withsyria ...