When a team of young Syrian artists living in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp set out to preserve the rich cultural heritage of their besieged homeland, they had no idea the sites would be wiped out by war, or how prescient their project would prove to be. The group began a project last year to create a gallery of paintings and models of the growing roster of at-risk antiquities, hoping that refugee parents living in the camp would view the exhibition and share their triggered memories with their children. According to ...

The Middle East is engulfed in violence on the ground, but the Twittersphere has tallied its own fake casualties in the region. From Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the online rumor mill has been killing people left and right. It’s also tracked the late Lebanese singer Sabah’s marriages , and stalked Kim Kardashian’s travel plans in the MidEast. We’ve rounded up a few of the region’s biggest rumors that have sprouted up over the years, basking in brief Twitter glory before getting deflated.