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They stormed many Alawite towns and villages across the region, where residents said they carried out revenge killings and looted homes and shops.

Many homes of Alawites were looted and then set on fire in different areas, two residents of Syria’s coastal region told the AP from their hideouts.

In the garden, they left piles of empty bottles of vodka, whisky and gin that they had looted and drunk.

The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th Century and which ended up in a Dutch museum.

"Our medical supplies were looted at the very beginning of the escalation of the conflict. And we had an influx that was unseen before - between 100 and 150 patients a day for weeks."