Islamic State Blows-Up Ancient Temple Of Baal Shamin In Palmyra

New York Times: ISIS Blows Up Ancient Temple at Syria’s Palmyra Ruins

Militants from the Islamic State set off explosions at a temple in the ancient ruins of Palmyra in Syria, activists and government officials said on Sunday, continuing a pattern of destruction that they have visited upon historical sites across the territory they control there and in Iraq.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist and monitoring group based in Britain, said Sunday in a statement that Islamic State fighters detonated “a large quantity of explosives” that they had arranged around the Temple of Baalshamin, one of the most grand and well-preserved structures in the sprawling complex of ruins. A government official told reporters that it was heavily damaged by the blast.

WNU Editor: This temple has ben standing in the same spot for 2,000 years .... and now it is gone. The barbarians are not at the gates, they have passed the gates.

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