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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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