Since the fall of the Assad regime, "widespread poverty" and the "collapse" of the nation's "once-feared security apparatus" have sparked a "gold rush" of looters, robbing 2000-year-old graves for ...

Facebook Marketplace has become a profitable hub for the sale of looted and trafficked Syrian antiquities. Since the fall of the Assad regime, "widespread poverty" and the "collapse" of the nation ...

Nearly a third of the 1,500 Syrian antiquities trafficking cases documented by the group since 2012 have taken place in the ...

We examine the scale of the looting, how traffickers use the features of platforms like Facebook to facilitate their illegal businesses, and how the western art world could help tackle the issue.

The policy change, which signals a major shift in Facebook’s position on the trade in cultural property, comes in response to calls of alarm from archaeologists and terrorism experts over the illegal ...

In short: Facebook Marketplace dominates reports of online buying scams and the problem appears to be getting worse. NAB reports of "buying and selling" scams increased 78 per cent in the final ...

Find Facebook Marketplace by clicking the Marketplace icon in the Facebook website or app. If you don't see Marketplace, try logging out and back in to Facebook. Facebook Marketplace is only ...