[HIGHLIGHTS] 20 years after the American invasion. Where did Iraq's ruins go?

Twenty years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 20, many rare cultural antiquities and objects are still looted.

Thousands of years old artifacts from some of the oldest sites in the Middle East are still missing. Many of the remains of these ancient artifacts were looted by European forces to fill major colonial-era national museums. Many masterpieces were also destroyed, especially during the rise of the Islamic State after 2014, as statues and antique sculptures were destroyed in the Mosul Museum in Nineveh Governorate.