Islamic State news

Following France’s decision to pledge €28m (US$30m, £23.8m) towards the protection of cultural heritage sites during conflicts, world donors have followed up on the declaration ... More

Terrorist attacks, strikes and serious flooding have cost Paris an estimated €750m (US$847.5m, £640m) according to new statistics, with tourism chiefs calling for action in ... More

Daniel Libeskind yesterday (11 April) publicly revealed for the first time that he has been developing a Kurdistan Museum in Erbil, the capital of the ... More

UNESCO and Red Cross are teaming up to enhance the protection of cultural heritage in the event of an armed conflict. The new agreement has ... More

After calls early last year to form a UN peacekeeping force to protect heritage sites worldwide, UNESCO and the Italian government have signed an agreement ... More

The Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Bangladesh is due to go ahead later this month despite three-time winners Australia pulling out due to “security threats”. ... More

Europe’s football governing body UEFA has confirmed that the Euro 2016 football championship – due to be played across ten cities in France next year ... More

Minor Hotel Group (MHG) has partnered with Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment – the development arm of the Qatar government – to develop two new ... More

The threat of Islamic State (ISIS) to tourists in Tunisia means Star Wars fans have been told to avoid a popular attraction because of the ... More

Italy’s minister for culture has backed plans for the creation of a UN peacekeeping force to protect heritage sites across the world, following the destruction ... More

Iraq’s tourism and antiquities minister, Adel Fahad al-Shershab, has said the US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against the radical Islamic State (IS) must try ... More

The Turkish government is planning to open a museum in May 2015 on the site of a former archeological site and ancient city once excavated ... More

US secretary of state John Kerry will be on-hand later today (22 September) to highlight the destruction of Iraq and Syria’s cultural heritage by violent ... More

Troubled Iraq’s national museum has reopened two renovated halls for exhibition, more than a decade after they were subject to mass looting and destruction during ... More

More than half the animals at a zoo in the Gaza Strip have died either through shelling or thirst during the latest regional conflict, said ... More

Iraq’s religious and cultural heritage is in serious danger of being completely lost from attacks by radical militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and ... More

This year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi is likely to be the most expensive Olympic Games to date, with its Russian organisers thought to have spent ... More