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America is in for a great ���shaking,��� says Jonathan Cahn, author of the New York Times best-sellers ���The Harbinger��� and ���The Mystery of the Shemitah.��� The Shemitah year began on Sept. 25, 2014, and will hit its climax on Sept. 13, 2015. That is exactly.
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With Daish (ISIS) advancing (5/15/2015) toward the gates of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra (Tadmur), another global archeological tragedy may be descending upon an irreplaceable treasure of the Syrian people and the world. This observer has been.
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Appalling ISIS video shows ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud.
Another video released in April, shows the Islamic State (IS) destroying the 2,000-year-old ruins in the ancient Hatra city in northern Iraq, 110 kilometres south of Mosul. The jihadists obliterated ancient artifacts in the Mosul��.
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Italys culture minister has called for the creation of a UN peacekeeping force to protect the worlds heritage sites, following the destruction of ancient cities in Iraq by Islamic State (Isis) militants. ���A sort of blue. ���At one time great monuments were hit accidentally in wars, during bombing.. Building a force specifically to protect heritage in crisis situations could not be left to an individual state, Franceschini said, and must be initiated by the international community.
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When the time comes, should ISIS be prosecuted by an ���International court���? This question creates a bigger problem for the international community, because it will require the investigation of certain countries that can be considered as ���complicit to.
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A new video shows Islamic State jihadists destroying ancient artifacts in Iraq, some from a biblical era. The footage, released Thursday by ISIS, shows terrorists ripping protective coverings from artifacts in a museum in the city��.
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The central city, also known as Tadmur, is built alongside the remains of an oasis civilization whose colonnaded streets, temple and theatre have stood for 2,000 years. ISIS has destroyed antiquities and ancient monuments in neighboring Iraq and is.
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ISIS did not stop at Mosul and later in March demolished the remains of the ancient city of Hatra in the north of the country, which has been on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1987, following a ���bulldozing��� of the ancient Assyrian. ���At a time when ISIL is destroying the ancient monuments and artifacts of Iraqs rich history, the United States continues to work towards preserving its historical legacy for the Iraqi people and for the world,��� the statement added, using��.
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Another world wonder is on the brink of destruction as ISIS continues its rampage through the cultural heritage of Iraq and Syria. This time it is the ancient oasis city of Palmyra in Syria, a UNESCO World Heritage Site dating back 2,000 years. Syrian.
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Antiquities ministry reiterates calls for international community to intervene after reports of new attack on ancient city of Dur Sharrukin.. these gangs with their sick, takfiri ideology will continue to destroy and steal artefacts as long as there is no strong deterrent, and we still await a strong international stand to stop the crimes of Daesh that are targeting the memory of humanity,��� it added, referring to the.. Create UN military unit to protect ancient sites from Isis, says Italy.
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Another world wonder is on the brink of destruction as ISIS continues its rampage through the cultural heritage of Iraq and Syria. This time it is the ancient oasis city of Palmyra in Syria, a UNESCO World Heritage Site dating back 2,000 years. ISIS t.
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The coastline was the scene of a much larger spill in 1969 ��� the largest in U.S. waters at the time ��� that is credited with giving rise to the American environmental movement. Crude was flowing. Islamic State extremists captured the ancient Syrian.
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. Isis. We must not stand by and do nothing.. The Aleppo souk has been devastated, the mosques minaret destroyed. The Seleucid city of Dura Europos, founded in 303 BC on a site overlooking the Euphrates, has been violently dug up in the search for antiquities that can be sold to help finance Isis.. It would also confirm Isiss littleness: how could anyone be so threatened by ancient ruins, unless they lacked belief in their ability to create something themselves?
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IS, which has destroyed ancient ruins in its rampage across the Middle East, is on the doorstep of one of the most beautiful world heritage sites in the region and Syrian troops are desperately fighting to hold them at bay. The man in charge. On.
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UNESCO, the UNs cultural agency, and IESEC, its Islamic counterpart, denounced the citys destruction as a ���war crime��� and a ���turning point in the cultural cleansing��� of Iraq. Others around. A few days later, ISIS fighters bulldozed an archaeological site dating back to 900 B.C. at the city of Nimrud, an ancient capital of the Assyrian Empire. These are not. This is not the first time Western powers have declined to intervene to protect Iraqi cultural property. During the��.
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ISIS forces pushed east Monday from their fresh victory in Ramadi as the Iraqi government rushed reinforcements to shore up defensive lines meant to stop the terror groups advance.. This time it is the ancient oasis city of Palmyra in Syria, a.
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It was when Isis issued a fatwa saying a wife should obey her husband in all matters, including becoming a suicide bomber, that Aysha, a 32-year-old mother of two children, decided to flee her home in Mosul. She recalls. She says that on 3 April ���at.
ISIS Must Be Stopped From Destroying Ancient City, UN Says
After months of fierce fighting, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) captured the town of Palmyra northeast of Syrias capital Damascus on Thursday, leaving the group in control of more than half of the countrys territory ��� and raising.
ISIS bulldozed ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, Iraq says.
Their plan is to destroy Iraqi heritage, one site at a time, said Abdulamir Hamdani, an Iraqi archaeologist from Stony Brook University. Hatra of course will be next, he said, referring to a beautifully preserved city in Nineveh��.
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Last weeks stunning video of the destruction of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is likely to renew calls for drastic action to save Iraqs antiquities before they are lost forever.. The solution, Eakin suggests, is to extend the doctrine of ���responsibility to protect,��� usually used to justify military intervention to stop genocide and wholesale massacre, to the protection of inanimate cultural heritage as well. A few well-placed��.
Fears for treasures of ancient world as Isis reach city gates.
The oasis city is 2,000 years old and is one of six Unesco world heritage sites in Syria. The UN describes it as a site. The secretary-general of the United Nations has called for the international community to stop Islamic State terrorists. Last updated at March. Destruction of ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud by Isis is a war crime, says UN. Isis militants have.. Times Newspapers Limited 2015 | Version 5.14.1.0(149023). Registered in��.
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We gain further, frightening insight into the minds of ISIS adherents in their unfathomable destruction of ancient archaeological and cultural sites. At the same time, the world is. Now it is bulldozing the remains of ancient cities. Nimrud, Hatra.
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. on Thursday, leaving the group in control of more than half of the countrys territory���and raising fears among experts that its fighters will begin smashing spectacular ancient sites. Read more: ISIS Must Be Stopped From Destroying Ancient City, U.
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From Caesars arson of the Library of Alexandria to the Nazis destruction of synagogues to the Talibans demolition of the Bamiyan Buddhas, eliminating cultural identity is a strike against the spirit of a people. In recent months, ISIS has ransacked.
ISIS destroys ancient artifacts in Iraq as a cover for an even more sinister.
Iraq has sent lists to the International Council of Museums, the UN, and Interpol detailing all the artifacts that might have been looted from the museum in Mosul, Iraqs second-largest city, overrun by ISIS last June. Harder to stop, however, is the.
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A protester is seen Tuesday outside the White House to urge the administration to stop ISIS from destroying ancient artifacts in Iraq and Syria. (Marie Helene. The latest target of the Islamic State is Hatra, a 2,000-year-old city and archaeological site in northern Iraq that had parts demolished by ISIS militants last week, according to Kurdish officials. The terrorists. ���We must constrict the terrorists ability to profit from the sale of plundered antiquities. ���If we dont act now��.
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���Such wanton brutality must stop, before all vestiges of the ancient world are obliterated.��� The incident echoes the 2001 destruction of two huge Buddhas in Afghanistan by the Taliban, despite interventions by the United��.
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The destruction took place in Mosul, the Iraqi city that has been under the control of Isis since June when jihadi fighters advanced rapidly across the countrys north. ���In front of something like this, we are speechless,��� said��.
Isis video shows destruction of ancient Assyrian city in Iraq.
Iraqs Nimrud before it was destroyed by Isis militants. Photograph: guardian.co.uk. The Islamic State group has released a video that shows militants smashing artefacts at the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq before blowing up the site. The undated video. unclear at the time. ���Whenever we are able in a piece of land to remove the signs of idolatry and spread monotheism, we will do it,��� one militant says at the end of the video, released on Saturday.
ISIS Bulldozing of Ancient Nimrud Site in Iraq Stirs Outrage.
News that Islamic State fighters had bulldozed and vandalized the ancient city of Nimrud in northern Iraq provoked outrage on Friday, as archaeologists despaired that the militant group was systematically destroying priceless antiquities. at the United Nations called the destruction a war crime that should be taken up by the International Criminal Court, and she vowed to do ���whatever is needed��� to stop the plundering by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL.
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ISLAMIC STATE JIHADISTS have seized full control of the ancient Syrian city of ��� putting the world heritage site and its priceless artefacts at risk of destruction. The ransacking of Palmyra, a 2,000-year-old former stopping��.