
A new ISIS propaganda video shows three Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, evidently captured in the Nineveh province of Iraq, beheaded with knives before a large crowd of onlookers, some of them small children.
by John Hayward22 Mar 2015, 6:44 PM PST0

ISIS believes “ancient relics promote idolatry that violates their fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law.”
by John Hayward17 Mar 2015, 6:20 PM PST0

Baghdad museum director Fawzye al-Mahdi claims the “invaluable artifacts” at a Mosul museum that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) destroyed in a video are in fact replicas.
by Mary Chastain17 Mar 2015, 9:22 AM PST0

Islamic States (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) militants have been purging Iraq and Syria of its culture and history by destroying and removing thousands of archaeological and historic texts and artifacts.
by Adelle Nazarian1 Feb 2015, 6:21 PM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) set their eyes on another historical site to demolish as they continue to establish their The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) set their eyes on another historical site to demolish as they continue to establish their caliphate across Iraq. Residents near Mosul told Assyrian website Ankawa the militants’ plan to blow up the walls of Nineveh, which date back to almost 700 B.C.
by Mary Chastain2 Jan 2015, 7:48 PM PST0