Syrians returned on Wednesday to the national museum in Damascus, reopened for the first time since Islamist-led forces seized the capital and ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The antiquities ...

Hundreds attend the first gallery show openings since fall of Bashar al-Assad, honouring former detainees and disappeared ...

One video from Damascus showed a military checkpoint that had been abandoned ... the presidential palace as if they were visiting a museum, smiling and posing for photographs in the halls.

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 ...