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 ...

Outside the Damascus museum, Iyad Ghanem was among a group holding up signs demanding the new rulers help preserve the country's cultural heritage. Some artefacts at the museum date back more than ...

By 2020, nearly half of Syria’s Jewish sites were destroyed, including the Jobar Synagogue in Damascus, according to a report from the Foundation for Jewish Heritage.

"We all feel like we have been underwater literally for 13 years and we just took a breath," Rania Kataf, a 39-year-old researcher in Syrian cultural heritage in Damascus, told the BBC.