BEIJING HELPS BELT ROAD NATIONS SAVE RELICS

The temples, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, were damaged in a 2016 earthquake... READ MORE›

BRITAIN'S HADRIAN'S WALL, CHINA'S GREAT WALL TO WORK TOGETHER IN UNIQUE HERITAGE PARTNERSHIP

A unique agreement that will see Britain's Hadrian's Wall and the Great Wall of China work together, was announced last Tuesday by Heritage Minister John Glenn... READ MORE›

NAPLES PIZZA TWIRLING SEEKS NOD AS UNESCO 'INTANGIBLE' HERITAGE

Naples' art of pizza twirling is a candidate to join UNESCO's list of intangible heritage this week along with a wealth of other cultural treasures such... READ MORE›

WORLD HERITAGE SITES THREATENED BY CLIMATE CHANGE NEARLY DOUBLES SINCE 2014

Latest findings have revealed that climate change impacts one in four natural World Heritage sites, including coral reefs, glaciers, and wetlands... READ MORE›

HOW QATAR CRISIS PLAYED A ROLE IN AZOULAY'S ELECTION AS UNESCO CHIEF

The US withdrawal was largely due to the country's view that UNESCO has an anti-Israel bias... READ MORE›

CHINA-US TOURISM EXCHANGE GETS A BOOST

By hosting this event, we hope to introduce China's world heritage sites to American tourists and provide an opportunity to deepen China-US tourism cooperation... READ MORE›

FRENCH AND QATARI CANDIDATES FACE OFF IN FINAL VOTE FOR TOP UNESCO JOB

Unfortunately, this venue has become politicised, undermining the work of UNESCO across its mandate... READ MORE›

US, ISRAEL TO QUIT UNESCO AT END OF 2018[1]

Since then, however, the United States has still maintained a UNESCO office at the organization's headquarters in Paris, France... READ MORE›

U.S., ISRAEL TO EXIT UNESCO, CITING BIAS AGAINST JEWISH STATE

While the Trump administration had been preparing for a likely withdrawal from UNESCO for months, the timing of the State Department's statement Thursday was unexpected... READ MORE›

US WITHDRAWS FROM UNESCO, ACCUSES THE ORGANISATION OF ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS

UNESCO, the cultural and educational agency of the United Nations, expressed regret over the United States' official decision to leave its organisation... READ MORE›

US TO PULL OUT OF UNESCO AMID PALESTINIAN TENSIONS

UNESCO's outgoing director-general, Irina Bokova of Bulgaria, called the U.S. departure a loss for the United Nations family and for multilateralism... READ MORE›

FRENCH, QATARI CANDIDATES NECK-AND-NECK IN RACE FOR UNESCO CHIEF

Had 18 votes apiece in the battle to replace outgoing UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova... READ MORE›

ISIS BLOWS UP TEMPLE AT SYRIAS PALMYRA RUINS

The entire ancient city of Palmyra is a Unesco World Heritage site... READ MORE›

ISIS ATTACKS IRAQI ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Last week, Islamic State militants videotaped themselves destroying statues and artifacts in the Mosul Museum and at the Nergal Gate entryway to ancient Nineveh... READ MORE›

MYANMAR IS RESTORING TEMPLES TO REBUILD ITS HERITAGE

It damaged 389 of Bagan's monuments, and broke Pyathat Gyi's spire as if it were one of her candies... READ MORE›

FRIEDMAN THE WORLDS HOT SPOT

Let me point out a few news items you may have missed while debating the Iran nuclear deal... READ MORE›

WATCH LIVE COVERAGE OF TURKEY'S BORDER WITH SYRIA NEAR EMBATTLED KOBANE

The Kobane battle has raged in full view of the Turkish frontier, testing whether a US-led coalition can halt Islamic State's advance... READ MORE›

GRAFFITI ON HOMELAND UNNOTICED BY PRODUCERS CALLS SHOW RACIST

In October 2012, Lebanon's tourism minister at the time, Fadi Abboud, threatened to sue the makers of the series for their depiction of Beirut, the Lebanese capital... READ MORE›

FRIEDMAN SYRIA OBAMA AND PUTIN

Putin stupidly went into Syria looking for a cheap sugar high to show his people that Russia is still a world power... READ MORE›

ISIS BULLDOZING OF ANCIENT NIMRUD SITE IN IRAQ STIRS OUTRAGE

The agency said that screenshots of the Defense Department system had been posted online, apparently to prove that the cyberattack had been successful... READ MORE›

'WHY IS THE WORLD SO QUIET?' YEMEN SUFFERS ITS OWN CRUEL LOSSES, FAR FROM ALEPPO.

KAWKABAN, Yemen -- The majestic fortress nestled atop a mountain here in northwestern Yemen survived the armies of the Islamic warrior Saladin in the 12th century... READ MORE›

'UNESCO-CIDE': DOES WORLD HERITAGE STATUS DO CITIES MORE HARM THAN GOOD?

For George Town and its clan jetties, the Unesco imprimatur seemingly provided a second wind... READ MORE›

COUNTRIES WITH CORAL REEFS MUST DO MORE ON CLIMATE CHANGE - UNESCO

The new decision builds on that assessment, clarifying the responsibility of countries with custodianship over world-heritage listed coral reefs... READ MORE›

EXPLOSION DESTROYS ANCIENT SITE IN YEMEN CAPITAL

Two weeks ago, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously passed a resolution aimed at thwarting and prosecuting antiquities vandals and smugglers... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA LOOKS SET TO START BOMBING SYRIA AS LIBERALS WARN AGAINST TOO MUCH COMPASSION FOR REFUGEES

Australia looks set to start bombing Syria as Libs warn against too much refugee compassion... READ MORE›

ISIS HELD US AID WORKER AS SEX SLAVE BEFORE DEATH

DOHUK Iraq Somewhere in territory controlled by the Islamic State Kayla Mueller an American aid worker was chained in a room with other female captives... READ MORE›

BRADFORD DAWOOD FAMILY 'SPLIT TO CROSS SYRIA BORDER'

Sisters Khadija Sugra and Zohra Dawood and their children went missing after travelling to Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›

ISIS OR AL QAEDA AMERICAN OFFICIALS SPLIT OVER TOP TERROR THREAT

Senior leaders of the Islamic State -- unlike those of Al Qaeda -- have not made a priority of organizing strikes on the West... READ MORE›

US AIR STRIKES TARGET IS GATHERING

International business times uk iraq suicide bombing briton killed during attack on police convoy 2 hrs ago... READ MORE›

MAP: THERE ARE 10 WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. NINE ARE IN DANGER.

Islamic State group jihadists seized Syria's Palmyra on Thursday, as UNESCO warned that the destruction of the ancient city would be an enormous loss to humanity... READ MORE›

UN TO DEPLOY PEACEKEEPERS TO PROTECT WORLD HERITAGE SITES

UN peacekeepers will protect world heritage sites from attacks by Islamist militants Unesco has said... READ MORE›

GERMAN ISIL FIGHTER WHO RETURNED FROM SYRIA DENOUNCES GROUP AS UN-ISLAMIC

Ebrahim, a trained massage therapist, claimed that Isil members are given a choice You must immediately decide to either be a fighter or a suicide bomber... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS BLOW UP ANCIENT ARCH OF TRIUMPH IN PALMYRA

Islamic State has declared a caliphate in territory it holds across Syria and Iraq and has destroyed other monuments it says are pagan and sacrilegious... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE FIGURES KILLED IN AIR STRIKE; BAGHDADI NOT BELIEVED AMONG THEM

Islamic State supporters said on Twitter that even if Baghdadi had been killed, his self-proclaimed caliphate straddling large areas of Iraq and Syria would survive... READ MORE›

ISIS ARE HELL-BENT ON DESTROYING CENTURIES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE

The mining town's new neighbours who are half a world away... READ MORE›

A reef campaigner with the Australian Marine Conservation Society, Felicity Wishart, said the report contained no measurable, deliverable action... READ MORE›

MASS GRAVES FOUND IN WESTERN IRAQ

It has also emerged that Islamic State may have killed 600 prisoners at a jail in Mosul they seized in June... READ MORE›

MINING AND OIL THREATENS ONE IN THREE NATURAL WORLD HERITAGE SITES REPORT

Of natural world heritage sites in Africa, more than six in ten are threatened with development... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE IS RUBBING ITS HANDS WITH GLEE OVER THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS

The media have focused on the human tragedy of the tens or hundreds of thousands of people from areas under the bloodthirsty murderers of Isil... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE SHOWS IMAGES OF ANCIENT SYRIAN TEMPLE DESTRUCTION

Islamic State has proclaimed a caliphate to rule over all Muslims from territory it holds in both Syria and Iraq... READ MORE›

YEMEN CAPITAL SANAA HIT BY CAR BOMB ATTACK

Yemen has been in turmoil since Houthi rebels overran Sanaa last September, forcing the government of President Mansour Abdrabbuh Hadi to flee... READ MORE›

ISIL LEADER SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AMERICAN HOSTAGE

The Islamic State claimed Mueller was killed in February in a Jordanian airstrike near Raqqah, the group's self-declared capital in Syria... READ MORE›