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Recent News Headlines : Nimrud

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...
18th July, 2016 122

Trending News Headlines : Nimrud

INDIA TODAY IS MILITANTS LOOT BULLDOZE 3 000-YEAR-OLD NIMRUD CITY 49 MINS AGO

- Explained in 60 secs Archaeologists and officials have expressed outrage about the bulldozing of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud by Islamic State militants in Iraq...
6th March, 2015 11510

ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS HAVE DESTROYED PALMYRA'S ANCIENT TEMPLE OF BAALSHAMIN SYRIAN OFFICIALS AND ACTIVISTS SAY.

Islamic State militants have destroyed Palmyra's ancient temple of Baalshamin, Syrian officials and activists say...
24th August, 2015 9096

LAST WEEK, ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS VIDEOTAPED THEMSELVES DESTROYING STATUES AND ARTIFACTS IN THE MOSUL MUSEUM AND AT THE NERGAL GATE ENTRYWAY TO ANCIENT NINEVEH.

Many of the massive Nimrud statues remain buried at the site...
5th March, 2015 8084

PLEASE READ OUR ISIS MILITANTS INTENSIFIED THEIR EFFORTS TO DESTROY INVALUABLE HISTORICAL LANDMARKS IN IRAQ AFTER BULLDOZING THE ANCIENT ASSYRIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF NIMRUD NEAR MOSUL.

Isis militants intensified their efforts to destroy invaluable historical landmarks in Iraq after a??bulldozing the ancient Assyrian archaeological site of Nimrud near Mosul...
7th March, 2015 5225

SPECIAL AGENTS WILL USE EVERY TOOL AT THEIR DISPOSAL TO PURSUE AND BRING TO JUSTICE THOSE THAT ATTACK THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE," HE ADDED, USING AN ABBREVIATION FOR HIS UNIT.

The missiles shall rein upon thy who claim alliance, watch your heads," the agency said...
6th March, 2015 4009

AND THAT WAS JUST THIS PAST WEEK IN ONE SYRIAN PROVINCE.

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...
25th August, 2015 3109

BUT THURSDAY WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE ISLAMIC STATE SAID IT HAD DESTROYED PALMYRA STATUES.

ISIS Destroys More Artifacts in Syria and Iraq...
3rd July, 2015 2771

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...
9th March, 2015 2466

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.

The bulk of the destruction occurred on Wednesday, according to journalists at Mosul TV...
7th March, 2015 1609

IN MARCH 2015, THE ISLAMIC STATE RELEASED VIDEOS SHOWING ITS MILITANTS SHOOTING AT AND BULLDOZING HATRA AND NIMRUD, ANCIENT SITES IN NORTHERN IRAQ.

Palmyra's ruins had already been looted for some time before the Islamic State took control, for example...
29th March, 2016 1570

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.

AFP Photo CHRISTOPHE CHARON The ancient city of Palmyra was once one of the most well-known tourism spots in all of Syria...
1st September, 2015 1569

IRAQI ARMY DRIVES IS OUT OF KEY TOWN

Meanwhile, IS was widely condemned on Friday after it bulldozed the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq...
6th March, 2015 1452

ISLAMIC STATE IS MILITANTS HAVE PLANTED LANDMINES AND EXPLOSIVES AROUND THE ANCIENT PALMYRA RUINS, ACCORDING TO A GROUP THAT MONITORS THE WAR IN SYRIA.

Islamic State IS militants have planted landmines and explosives around the ancient Palmyra ruins according to a group that monitors the war in Syria...
21st June, 2015 1289

THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT HAS RECEIVED REPORTS THAT MILITANTS ARE LOOTING AND DAMAGING KHORSABAD - NINE MILES FROM MOSUL - AS THEY CONTINUE TO ATTACK ITS CULTURAL HERITAGE, ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS.

Iraqi Tourism and Antiquities Minister Adel Shirshab said: "Our airspace is not in our hands...
9th March, 2015 1199

ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY, INCLUDING BABYLON'S SPECTACULAR ISHTAR GATE, WHICH IS HOUSED IN BERLIN'S PERGAMON MUSEUM.

Statues destroyed by Islamic State in Mosul 'were fakes with originals safely in Baghdad'...
16th March, 2015 1036

IT WAS LAYARD WHO MOVED THOSE LAMASSUS - THE HUGE BEARDED STATUES - FROM NIMRUD TO LONDON, WHERE THEY CAN BE SEEN AND ENJOYED TO THIS DAY.

Whatever you may say about the appalling modern history of Iraq, the territory itself is the cradle of civilisation...
16th March, 2015 349

NINEVEH IS THE GOVERNORATE THAT INCLUDES THE NORTHERN IRAQI CITY OF MOSUL, WHICH WAS SEIZED BY ISIL IN JUNE AND IS NOW THE CAPITAL OF THEIR SELF-DECLARED "CALIPHATE".

Iron crosses are removed from the gates of a church In another photograph, a masked Isil footsoldier removes wrought-iron crosses from the front gates of the church with a crowbar...
17th March, 2015 279

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...
7th March, 2015 231

ASSYRIAN LEADERS IN IRAQ HAVE LAMBASTED ISIS MILITANTS WHO BULLDOZED THE ANCIENT CITY OF NIMRUD, ACCUSING THEM OF TRYING TO A??UPROOTA?? THEIR BELEAGUERED COMMUNITY.

Assyrians call on world leaders to prevent Isis from 'destroying our civilisation'...
7th March, 2015 219

ON FRIDAY WITNESSES SAID THE MILITANTS BULLDOZED ST ELIAN MONASTERY IN CENTRAL SYRIA.

On Friday, witnesses said the militants bulldozed St Elian Monastery in central Syria...
22nd August, 2015 112

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 ...
26th February, 2015 82

IN SYRIA'S ANCIENT CITY OF PALMYRA, THE ISLAMIC STATE IS FINISHING A JOB THAT FOUR YEARS OF VIOLENT CONFLICT GOT STARTED.

In Syria's ancient city of Palmyra the Islamic State is finishing a job that four years of violent conflict got started...
24th August, 2015 74

MOSUL MUSEUM IN THIS IMAGE MADE FROM VIDEO POSTED ON A SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT AFFILIATED WITH THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP ON FEB.

The Islamic State continues its efforts to create a "caliphate," .....
31st August, 2015 69

-LED COALITION HAS BEEN STRIKING THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP SINCE AUGUST AND IS PREPARING A LARGE-SCALE OPERATION TO RETAKE THE CITY OF MOSUL.

Photo Antonio Castaneda, AP The majority of the artifacts destroyed in the Mosul Museum attack were from Hatra...
7th March, 2015 59

"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.

"Daesh terrorist gangs continue to defy the will of the world and the feelings of humanity," Iraq's tourism and antiquities ministry said, referring to Islamic State by its Arabic acronym...
6th March, 2015 52

CULTURAL AGENCY SAID FRIDAY AFTER MILITANTS DEMOLISHED A MONASTERY WITH ANCIENT FOUNDATIONS IN CENTRAL SYRIA.

IS systematically destroying heritage sites, UNESCO chief says...
22nd August, 2015 42

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.

The Islamic State group currently controls about a third of Iraq and Syria...
8th March, 2015 36

UNESCO CHIEF SAYS ISLAMIC STATE WAGING 'CULTURE CLEANSING'

Unesco chief says islamic state waging culture cleansing...
1st July, 2015 26

NEW YORK ISLAMIC STATE IS MORE OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH IMAGES OF ANTIQUITIES BEING DESTROYED IN PALMYRA AND NIMRUD, THAN WITH CULTURAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION.

Islamic State nets millions selling plundered antiquities online...
8th April, 2016 15

CLASHES BETWEEN IRAQI SECURITY FORCES AND ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS FOLLOWED THE ATTACK AROUND SAMARRA, 95 KILOMETRES NORTH OF BAGHDAD.

Iraqi PM reopens Baghdad Museum to defy IS...
28th February, 2015 14

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KEY ISIS LEADER KILLED IN SYRIA, JIHADI GROUP SAYS

Isis holds territory in the province of Aleppo, but not in the city itself where rebels are fighting Syrian government forces...
31st August, 2016 10

ISLAMIC STATE HOLDS TERRITORY IN THE PROVINCE OF ALEPPO, BUT NOT IN THE CITY WHERE REBELS ARE FIGHTING SYRIAN GOVERNMENT FORCES.

Amaq did not say how Adnani was killed...
30th August, 2016 0

AS 'CALIPHATE' SHRINKS, ISLAMIC STATE LOOKS TO GLOBAL ATTACKS

Berger, a fellow at George Washington University who researches Islamic State, have supported that prediction...
31st July, 2016 158

ARMED GROUP SAYS TOP COMMANDER OMAR AL-SHISHANI, CONSIDERED BY US AS ISIL'S DEFENCE CHIEF, KILLED IN IRAQ.

Iraq ISIL says Omar al-Shishani killed in air strike...
14th July, 2016 159

THE NATURE OF THE ATTACKS AND THEIR APPARENTLY COORDINATED TIMING SUGGESTED THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP COULD BE TO BLAME, ALTHOUGH NO ONE CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY.

The attacks come as the IS group is increasingly on the defensive in both Syria and Iraq...
6th July, 2016 1

EX-SOVIET EXILES GIVE ISLAMIC STATE VIOLENCE A RUSSIAN ACCENT

Around that time, Shishani aligned himself to Islamic State...
4th July, 2016 46

U.S.-BACKED SYRIAN FIGHTERS FIND TROVE OF ISLAMIC STATE PAPERS, DIGITAL DEVICES, TUNNEL NETWORK

Their goal was to cut Islamic State military supply lines in the Euphrates Valley between Syria and Iraq...
30th June, 2016 4

THE GROUP'S SHIITE IDEOLOGY IS DIFFERENT FROM THE SALAFI JIHADI BRAND THAT NUSRA FRONT AND ISLAMIC STATE GROUP ESPOUSE.

The Nusra Front and IS have claimed responsibility for deadly bombing attacks targeting Shiite-majority areas in Lebanon and have killed and wounded scores of people since 2013...
14th June, 2016 2

IN IRAQ, AN ATTACK ON FALLUJA, WHERE ISIS HAS BEEN HOLED UP SINCE JANUARY 2014, HAS ENTERED A SECOND WEEK.

"This is the same as what Isis does with Arabian tribes in Manbij, and other areas - exactly the same...
3rd June, 2016 91

ISIS BANS 'CORRUPT' FOREIGN TELEVISION AND SATELLITE DISHES

Isis orders civilians to hand over or destroy 'enemy' satellite dishes...
1st June, 2016 12

AND MOSUL, WHERE THE ISIS INSURRECTION IN SYRIA MORPHED INTO A PHENOMENON THAT IMPERILLED THE REGIONAL ORDER, IS UNDER INCREASING THREAT FROM REGROUPING US-BACKED IRAQI FORCES.

Turkish officials europe wanted to export extremists to syria...
25th March, 2016 394

AS ISLAMIC STATE PUSHES ABROAD WITH BRUSSELS ATTACK, ISIS IS LOSING TERRITORY IN SYRIA AND IRAQ

ISIS has lost about 40 percent of its territory in Iraq and about 20 percent in Syria, military officials have said...
24th March, 2016 16

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