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RAQQA ISIS CAPITAL IS CAPTURED US-BACKED FORCES SAY
Witnesses in Raqqa said that several busloads of Islamic State fighters, both Syrians and foreigners, had been allowed to board buses to Deir al-Zour... READ MORE›
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PALMYRA'S BAALSHAMIN TEMPLE 'BLOWN UP BY IS'
Islamic State militants have blown up the ancient temple of Baalshamin at Palmyra, Syrian officials and activists say... READ MORE›
ISIS BULLDOZING OF ANCIENT NIMRUD SITE IN IRAQ STIRS OUTRAGE
The agency said that screenshots of the Defense Department system had been posted online, apparently to prove that the cyberattack had been successful... READ MORE›
ISIS ACCELERATES DESTRUCTION OF ANTIQUITIES IN SYRIA
The wrecking of the Temple of Baalshamin in Palmyra over the weekend was a new shock for Syrians and for experts and antiquities enthusiasts worldwide... READ MORE›
RACE IN IRAQ AND SYRIA TO SHIELD ART FROM ISLAMIC STATE
He had worked in Qaraqosh, an Assyrian Christian town in northern Iraq, but fled when the Islamic State took over... READ MORE›
MOSUL: TOWN OF TAL AFAR IN FOCUS ON WESTERN FRONT
Asadi said the operation, which began on Saturday, aimed to retake the towns of Hatra and Tal Abta, as well as Tal Afar... READ MORE›
JIHADISTS MAY HAVE WRECKED AN ANCIENT IRAQI SITE
On Saturday, residents of Mosul and Nineveh Province offered new details about the destruction of Nimrud by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL... READ MORE›
MAP: THERE ARE 10 WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. NINE ARE IN DANGER.
Islamic State group jihadists seized Syria's Palmyra on Thursday, as UNESCO warned that the destruction of the ancient city would be an enormous loss to humanity... READ MORE›
UN TO DEPLOY PEACEKEEPERS TO PROTECT WORLD HERITAGE SITES
UN peacekeepers will protect world heritage sites from attacks by Islamist militants Unesco has said... READ MORE›
ISIS ARE HELL-BENT ON DESTROYING CENTURIES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE
The mining town's new neighbours who are half a world away... READ MORE›
STATUES DESTROYED BY ISLAMIC STATE IN MOSUL 'WERE FAKES WITH ORIGINALS SAFELY IN BAGHDAD'
Archaeologists in the 20th century, including Babylon's spectacular Ishtar Gate, which is housed in Berlin's Pergamon Museum... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE CONTINUES DEPRAVED DESTRUCTION OF HISTORICAL SITES AND CHURCHES
The village is close to Isil's battlefront with Kurdish forces which have slowed their advance through parts of Syria and Iraq... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE DEFACES ST GEORGE IN ASSAULT ON CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN IRAQ
In an attempt to protect their homelands, ending centuries in the Middle East in which local Christian communities have traditionally turned the other cheek... READ MORE›
IRAQ SAYS ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS RAZE ANCIENT HATRA CITY
Hatra lies about 110 km 70 miles south of Mosul, the largest city under Islamic State control... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE DESTROYS IRAQ'S OLDEST MONASTERY
St Elijah's joins a growing list of more than 100 religious and historic sites looted and destroyed, including mosques, tombs, shrines and churches... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS DAMAGE HATRA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE WITH SLEDGEHAMMERS
The video's release comes after the Iraqi government this week claimed victory against the Islamic State group in Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit... READ MORE›
IRAQI MARSHLANDS NAMED AS UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE
The area named is made up of seven sites three archaeological sites and four wetland marsh areas in southern Iraq, Unesco said... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE TAKES SLEDGEHAMMER, DRILLS TO IRAQI HISTORY
But he described the damage to Iraq's heritage since Islamic State overran Mosul last year as an attempt to destroy the identity of an entire people ... READ MORE›
THE UNBELIEVABLE DAMAGE ISLAMIC STATE HAS DONE TO ANCIENT SITES IN IRAQ AND SYRIA
Mosul museum In this image made from video posted on a social media account affiliated with the Islamic State group on Feb... READ MORE›
UNESCO APPROVES 'CULTURAL BLUE HELMETS' TO PROTECT HERITAGE SITES FROM ISLAMIST MILITANTS
Islamist militants are also accused of being behind attacks on ten religious and historic monuments in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Timbuktu in Mali... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE DESTROYING ANOTHER ANCIENT SITE IN IRAQ
Photo Antonio Castaneda, AP The majority of the artifacts destroyed in the Mosul Museum attack were from Hatra... READ MORE›
OLDEST CHRISTIAN MONASTERY IN IRAQ IS RAZED
A Chaldean Catholic pastor in Southfield, Mich., he remembers attending Mass at St. Elijah's almost 60 years ago while a seminarian in Mosul... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS BULLDOZE ANCIENT ASSYRIAN CITY NIMRUD
"Islamic State members came to the Nimrud archaeological city and looted the valuables in it and then they proceeded to level the site to the ground," the source said... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE DESTROYING ANOTHER ANCIENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE IN IRAQ
Iraqi officials in the northern city of Mosul said Saturday that Islamic State militants have begun demolishing Hatra, a move UNESCO described as cultural cleansing... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE BLOWS UP TWO PALMYRA MAUSOLEUMS; ROMAN RUINS FEARED NEXT
Islamic State militants have destroyed two historic mausoleums in Palmyra, Syria's top antiquities official said Wednesday, raising fears that the extremis... READ MORE›
UNESCO CHIEF SAYS ISLAMIC STATE WAGING 'CULTURE CLEANSING'
UNESCO on Wednesday named 2,000-year-old Hatra as one of its Heritage in Danger sites, joining the likes of the Everglades and the Old City of Jerusalem... READ MORE›
IRAQI PM REOPENS BAGHDAD MUSEUM TO DEFY IS
Clashes between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants followed the attack around Samarra, 95 kilometres north of Baghdad... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS BULLDOZE ANCIENT ASSYRIAN CITY NIMRUD
"Islamic State members came to the Nimrud archaeological city and looted the valuables in it and then they proceeded to level the site to the ground," the source said... READ MORE›
JIHADIS DESTROY IRAQI ARTEFACTS IN ISLAMIC STATE VIDEO SHOT IN HATRA UNESCO SITE
UNESCO has condemned Islamic State's systematic campaign against Iraq's rich heritage as a war crime... READ MORE›
THE UNBELIEVABLE DAMAGE ISLAMIC STATE HAS DONE TO ANCIENT SITES IN IRAQ AND SYRIA
Mosul museum In this image made from video posted on a social media account affiliated with the Islamic State group on Feb... READ MORE›
IRAQI HERITAGE SITES AGAIN AT RISK IN MOSUL OPERATION
As Iraqi forces close in on Mosul, the jihadists' last main bastion in the country, officials say IS has fighters deployed at or near archaeological sites... READ MORE›