Protected From Looting, Damascus Museum Reopens A Month After Assad’s Fall
Damascus: Syrians returned on Wednesday to the nationwide museum in Damascus, reopened for the primary time since Islamist-led forces seized the capital and ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The antiquities museum closed its doorways on December 7, a day earlier than Damascus was taken by insurgent forces, over fears of looting. “We firmly shut the museum’s…