{"id":50263,"date":"2020-11-23T09:47:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T09:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=50263"},"modified":"2020-11-23T09:47:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T09:47:38","slug":"opposition-groups-continue-searching-and-excavating-antiquities-in-syrias-afrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/50263\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition groups continue searching and excavating antiquities in Syria&#8217;s Afrin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) &#8211; <\/strong>A Syrian human rights source revealed, on Sunday, that the Turkish-backed armed opposition groups continue to dig and bulldoze archaeological hills and religious shrines in search of antiquities in the Afrin region, northwest of Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress alignright wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-north-press-agency\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"y8EpTMU2nl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/49474\/\">Hayat Tahrir al-Sham destroys antiquities In Syria&#8217;s Aleppo countryside<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Hayat Tahrir al-Sham destroys antiquities In Syria&#8217;s Aleppo countryside&#8221; &#8212; North press agency\" src=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/49474\/embed\/#?secret=xRo0BOuHwX#?secret=y8EpTMU2nl\" data-secret=\"y8EpTMU2nl\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the beginning of the war in Syria in 2011, <a href=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/41359\/\">the illegal excavation movement<\/a> has been active throughout the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Syria and Iraq witnessed the largest theft of antiquities in the world during the contemporary period, according to official estimates issued by the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in the United Kingdom, said that the Turkish-backed opposition militant groups continue excavating and searching for antiquities in various villages and towns in the Afrin area north-west of Aleppo, including the villages of Tal al-Bir and Afraza in Al-Ma\u2019abatli area in rural Afrin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/35560\/\">Tal al-Bir, in addition to other historical sites in Afrin<\/a>, have been subjected to digging and excavation operations in the past months, in search of artifacts using heavy machinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Syria contains between eight and ten thousand ancient and archaeological sites and about 40 museums, of which more than a thousand sites were subjected to vandalism and destruction, according to reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several historical landmarks in Afrin <a href=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/35560\/\">during the past period witnessed excavation<\/a>, including Aranda Hill in Sheikh Hadid district and Sheikh Hamid shrine in Qastal Jindo village in Sharran district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city of Afrin, on the Syrian-Turkish border, has been under the control of the Turkish military forces and Turkish-backed opposition military groups, since the March 2018 invasion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) &#8211; A Syrian human rights source revealed, on Sunday, that the Turkish-backed armed opposition groups continue to dig and bulldoze archaeological hills and religious shrines in search of antiquities in the Afrin region, northwest of Syria. 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