over fears of looting. "We firmly shut the museum's iron doors after we saw the situation was unstable," said Mohamed Nair Awad, head of the national antiquities authority. In the early hours of ...

Minister Fuad Hussein, speaking from the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, stated that the recovered items include "the ...

Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been committed to a comprehensive recovery strategy, which has so far resulted in the ...

The antiquities museum closed its doors on December 7, a day before Damascus was taken by rebel forces, over fears of looting. "We firmly shut the museum's iron doors after we saw the situation was ...

Syrians returned on Wednesday to the national ... The antiquities museum closed its doors on December 7, a day before Damascus was taken by rebel forces, over fears of looting.