Looting

Violence spread to other major UK cities — including Manchester and Birmingham, where three men were hit by a car and killed in violence there.

Concerns in UK over sentencing of two men to four years in prison for encouraging people to riot by posting messages on Facebook.

A police incident sparked riots across London neighborhoods — looting and violence left at least 35 police officers injured

Iraq’s National Museum in Baghdad was formally re-dedicated this week — it has been closed for six years since chaotic weeks following the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

As the fighting has raged on in Syria, there have been reports about Syrian archaeological sites damaged in the conflict. The scope of that damage has just recently started to come out, thanks largely to one diligent graduate student in northern England.