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One year after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the country’s largest statue of former president Hafez al-Assad remains toppled in the town of Deir Atiyah, north of Damascus. The statue was torn down by residents using heavy machinery…

Following the collapse of the 61-year-long Baath regime in Syria, opposition soldiers tore down and destroyed statues of the Assad family, which were placed all around the country during the Assad regime, in many parts of the capital…

In Damascus, Syrians celebrated the fall of the Assad regime by tearing down a statue of Hafez al-Assad, father of Bashar al-Assad, in Umayyad Square. The statue was tied to a truck and dragged through the streets as crowds chanted…

People in Hama, which was taken over by opposition military groups fighting against the forces of Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, tore down the statue of Bashar al-Assad's father and former President Hafez al-Assad in the city…

Türkiye’s largest Atatürk statue, standing 22 meters tall in Artvin, offered a stunning visual spectacle as fog engulfed the monument. Captured using fast motion techniques, the 60-ton statue appeared to vanish into the mist,…

An Irish tourist in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, broke the arm of a statue in front of the Stock Exchange building while climbing on it. The tourist, who was found to be drunk at the time of the incident, was detained at a nearby…

Lightning struck the 33-meter statue of Jesus Christ in the town of La Concordia in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The fire that broke out after the lightning burned the statue, which was made of fiberglass and resin, into ashes in a short…

Excavators have found an Apollo statue and many more in Prusias ad Hypium Ancient City in Konuralp, Düzce. The Apollo statue has been moved to Istanbul Archeology Museum to be conditioned. The statue is 190cm in length and 60cm in width.…

Protests in Kazakhstan, which started after the government hiked liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) prices, continue despite the government's resignation. Angry protesters in Taldykorgan tried to topple the statue of the country's first…