As the coronavirus crisis stretches on, we look at how artists have captured confinement in recent history and what is being done now

Yemeni authorities and World Monuments Fund team up to repair ruined National Museum in Taiz

The $100m initiative, inspired by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, will be presented at a conference in Abu Dhabi this week

The Second Protocol of the Hague Convention was met with strong resistance from Western military powers when it was adopted in 1999

This product of the country’s first war stresses the unity of the seven emirates

Islamic extremists razed massive 2,900-year-old Assyrian structure to the ground

Ahmad Al-Faqi Al-Mahdi was first to face war crimes trial in The Hague over cultural destruction

Photographer Mohamad Al Roumi offers a peaceful alternative view of his home country

The Ayyubid glories of Syria, now mostly in ruins

The 59 sculptures were among treasures seized by Stalin’s “Trophy Brigades” after the Second World War

Website will provide a platform for contemporary artists to show—and possibly sell—works

Louis-François Cassas documented many of the ancient Syrian city’s buildings, including the Temple of Bel that Isil destroyed last year

Issa Touma vows to return to Aleppo amid the fighting

162 works suspected to be Nazi loot, but just five have been identified as definite plunder

Anglo-French co-operation to alleviate misery in the Jungle

The National Museum in Tunis will share loans and exhibitions with Italian institutions

Five men have been sentenced under Law52, the anti-drugs legislation enforced by the country’s former president

Pro-Isil fighters temporarily occupied Sabratha

Refugee Response Foundation, founded by artist duo The Connor Brothers, is also due to help with legal and living costs

“People’s parliament” built for revolutionaries fighting Isil in northern Syria

Jean-Luc Martinez calls for safe havens for antiquities, European centre to combat smuggling and reconstruction fund

Greta Moll’s heirs argue painting was “misappropriated” in 1947

Jean-Antoine Houdon's sculpture of the goddess Diana was taken by the Nazis during the Second World War

Iraqi archaeologists to be trained in reconstruction of heritage sites under scheme funded by £3m government grant

Syrian antiquities head confirms destruction of ancient Roman archway

French naval officer Louis Vignes took images of Beirut, Lebanon and Syria in 1864

Unique insight into the destruction at Palmyra from the last US archaeologist to leave the site

The School of Kiev opened against the odds to focus on knowledge rather than art and breathe new life into old institutions