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Israeli Air Raids In Syria Kill Three Soldiers, Hit Iranian Sites

Syrian state media says three soldiers killed as Israeli military says its forces bombed Iranian and Syrian army targets around Golan Heights.

19 November 2020Syria
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'War Is Imminent': Iraq's Kadhimi Moves To Fend Off US Threat To...

Iraq Prime Minister Kadhimi scrambling to head off threatened closure of US embassy in Baghdad amid fears move could lead to political and economic collapse.

09 October 2020Iraq
hip-hop-poetry-and-shia-iconography-how-tahrir-square-gave-birth-to-a-new-iraq

Hip hop, poetry and Shia iconography: How Tahrir Square gave birth to...

The people who built the spectacle and spirit of Tahrir Square and other protest sites, through hip hop, poetry and Shia iconography, and indeed Iraqis in general, deserve better.

10 December 2019Iraq
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Iraq Poised For Ambitious Plan After Babylon Listed By UNESCO

Baghdad lobbied for more than three decades to get Babylon on UNESCO World Heritage List, but the way ahead may be even more difficult.

02 September 2019Iraq
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Musicians in Raqqa try to revive their city’s rich cultural heritage

The Raqqa Heritage Revival Band meets once a week to play local traditional songs at different architectural sites.

29 August 2019Syria
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Restoration of Amazigh caves as tourism sites in Tunisia

Amazigh people in Tunisia have been saving historical artefacts from extinction by restoring and converting them into tourist sites.

10 July 2019North Africa
Anbar-Operations-Forces-kill-13-ISIS-militants-including-leaders

Anbar Operations Forces kill 13 ISIS militants, including leaders

In order to continue its hunting down of ISIS sleeper cells, the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) has launched operations in the desert regions shared by the three provinces of Anbar, Nineveh, and Salahuddin.

09 May 2019Iraq
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Stranded between Syria's frontlines, Afrin's Yazidis yearn for lost homelands

Yazidis who fled Turkish-led assault on northern Syria fear that their identity is being erased in the villages they left behind - and that they may never return home.

09 October 2018Syria
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Jordanian military supports pilgrimage to Christian holy places

The Jordanian army has sent Christian military officers to Christian holy sites in Palestine and Jerusalem in a symbolic move that reflects the Kingdom's aims to promote plurality and equality.

01 September 2018Middle East
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Campaign to clear world heritage site in Babylon, Iraq

In preparation for UNESCO's visit to the ancient city of Babylon near Hilla, Iraq, the world heritage site is being cleaned from trash and military remnants.The Babylonian Theatre gardens and the gardens that face the front of the Temple of Ishtar are some of the main sites that were cleaned ahead of the visit.

20 August 2018Iraq
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Antiquities Museum Reopens in Syria's Opposition-Held Idleb

An antiquities museum said to have one of the oldest dictionaries has been reopened in Idleb after it was shut down in 2013 due to airstrikes. The head of the museum Ayman al-Nabu urges the UNESCO to preserve the province's archaeological sites, as they have nothing to do with politics.

16 August 2018Iraq
Liberation-of-Tal-Afar-reveals-more-ISIS-horrors-historical-sites-turned-into-torture-cells

Liberation of Tal Afar reveals more ISIS horrors historical sites turned into...

After taking control of Tal Afar in June 2014, ISIS militants converted the Citadel into a prison and torture chamber.

30 August 2017
Iraqi forces continue to destroy key ISIS sites in Tal Afar

Iraqi forces continue to destroy key ISIS sites in Tal Afar, as...

Tal Afar is one of ISIS' most important strongholds after their loss of Mosul, but its loss to the Iraqi force is imminent.

18 August 2017
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ISIS has destroyed more than 300 archaeological monuments in Nineveh

With the war against ISIS in Iraq coming to an end, the Directorate of Antiquities of Nineveh is tallying losses to heritage sites

04 July 2017
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Christians of Iraq demand reconstruction of religious sites

Christians of Iraq demand that their churches and monasteries destroyed by the Islamic State be restored.

23 May 2017
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Federal Police target key ISIS sites south of Mosul

Iraq’s Federal Police continue their advance on the right bank of Mosul’s southern axis, undertaking further sweeping and clearing operations...

08 December 2016
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