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The men who are stealing Syria’s past

Blood and treasure: a looted heritage

By James Harkin  
August 20, 2014
September 2014 issue of Prospect

The remains of the ancient city of Apamea, which thrived from the 4th century BC onwards, have been seriously damaged. © AGE Fotostock

It came at the end of a long conversation in the cool heat of early March in the Turkish border town of Antakya. Foreign journalists, fearing kidnap at the hands of Islamic extremists, have largely given up crossing the border into rebel-held northern Syria,…

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James Harkin

James Harkin was one of the two journalist witnesses to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on Syria and what do about Islamic State. He travelled to Syria with the support of the Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting. His latest book, Hunting Season is published by Little Brown

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