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IS TRUCK BOMB IN IRAQ SOWS CARNAGE AMONG SHIITE PILGRIMS
Iraqi forces launched a major offensive on October 17 to retake Mosul, where jihadist supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed a caliphate in 2014... READ MORE›
WHY THE WEST'S FAR-RIGHT -- AND TRUMP SUPPORTERS -- ARE STILL OBSESSED WITH AN ANCIENT BATTLE
A host of far-right groups, including neo-Nazi organizations in the United States and Australia, have invoked this history in their own political iconography... READ MORE›
GPS OFFERED THOUSANDS OF POUNDS TO GIVE PRIVATE CONSULTATIONS VIA APP
GPs offered thousands of pounds to give private consultations via app... READ MORE›
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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›
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›
ANCIENT GREEK GRAVE 'FOR ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S FRIEND HEPHAESTION'
Opulent underground monument in northern greece was for hephaestion closest friend and general of alexander the great archaeologist claims... READ MORE›
WORLD'S OLDEST WOODEN STATUE TWICE AS OLD AS PYRAMIDS
Microbes that eat away at organic matter don't like bogs reports Atlas Obscura which makes them particularly good at preservation... READ MORE›
AMPHIPOLIS EXCAVATION: GREEK TOMBS GIVE UP THEIR LAVISH RICHES
Greek culture minister Konstantinos Tasoulas with Amal Clooney Getty Over the past four years, debt strapped Greece has invested 590,000 466,000 in the excavation... READ MORE›
THE MOST DAZZLING CITY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates Pergamon, the stunning city that reveals a great deal about the ancient world, writes Alastair Sooke... READ MORE›
IRAQ TRUCK BOMB KILLS 33 NEAR BABYLONIAN RUINS
In 2014, a similar attack killed more than 70 people and injured 150 at the checkpoint, known as the Artifacts Checkpoint... READ MORE›
ANCIENT GRAVE IN GREECE HONORED ALEXANDER'S PAL, ARCHAEOLOGIST SAYS
Archaeologist Katerina Peristeri said she believes the vaulted structure decorated with sculptures and a mosaic floor was a funerary monument for Hephaestion... READ MORE›
HOW ANCIENT RUINS ARE PERFECT PROPAGANDA IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The event even involved a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin, echoing Assad's rhetoric... READ MORE›
IS DESTROYING ANCIENT IRAQ CITY
Controversy surrounds the excavation of an ancient tomb in Greece which a leading archaeologist had suggested could be linked to the family of Alexander the Great... READ MORE›
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RUSSIAN JETS REPORTEDLY REPEL MILITANTS FROM ANCIENT SYRIAN CITY
On Saturday, Islamic State IS fighters re-entered Palmyra after the Syrian government forces gained control over the Unesco World Heritage site in March.... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE RETAKES PARTS OF SYRIAA??S HISTORIC PALMYRA
The Islamic State gets 25 percent of its revenue from oil, the Center for the Analysis of Terrorism, a private research group, estimates... READ MORE›
KERRY DISCUSSES RENEWED BOMBING IN ALEPPO WITH RUSSIA
The bombardment restarted Tuesday after a four-week pause, part of a wider military escalation by the Syrian government and its allies, including Russia, against insurgents... READ MORE›
ISIS FLEES VILLAGE WHERE IT PROPHESIED DOOMSDAY BATTLE
It also offered further evidence of the Islamic State's rapidly diminishing capabilities ahead of the imminent offensive targeting the city of Mosul in neighboring Iraq... READ MORE›
SYRIAN REBELS SEIZE VILLAGE WHERE ISLAMIC STATE PROMISED FINAL BATTLE
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war, had said Islamic State brought 1,200 fighters to defend Dabiq... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE: OBAMA, AIDES EXPECTED TO WEIGH SYRIA MILITARY OPTIONS ON FRIDAY
This, in turn, might deter them from migrating to Islamist groups such as the Nusra Front, which the United States regards as Syria's al Qaeda branch... READ MORE›
A REMINDER OF THE PERMANENT WARS
In Iraq and Syria, between Saturday and Monday, the United States conducted about 45 strikes against Islamic State targets... READ MORE›
10 NEW WARS THAT COULD BE UNLEASHED AS A RESULT OF THE ONE AGAINST ISIS
5 Turkey and Syria The Turkish intervention in Syria has for now been confined to fighting the Islamic State and Kurdish forces... READ MORE›
SENIOR IS-LEADER ADNANI 'KILLED IN SYRIA'
Islamic State holds territory in the province of Aleppo, but not in the city where rebels are fighting Syrian government forces... READ MORE›
WHY THE PENTAGON SEES RECAPTURE OF SYRIAN CITY AS TEMPLATE FOR BATTLING THE ISLAMIC STATE
Conditions have worsened in the nearby city of Aleppo, Syria's largest, as rebels and Russian-backed government forces trade attacks... READ MORE›
ISIL SAYS OMAR AL-SHISHANI KILLED IN AIR STRIKE
The Pentagon announced in March that US forces had killed Shishani and said his death would likely hamper ISIL's operations in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere... READ MORE›
CRACKS BEGIN TO OPEN UP INSIDE ISLAMIC STATE'S SHRINKING CALIPHATE
Islamic State, for its part, plays on the population's fears of retribution from Iraqi forces and pro-government Shiite militias... READ MORE›