ISIS Destroys Temple at Palmyra Ruins

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ISIS militants have reportedly blown up an ancient temple in Syria’s historic city of Palmyra, officials and activists said Sunday. Fighters with the terror group allegedly “placed a large quantity of explosives in the Temple of Baalshamin today and then blew it up, causing much damage to the temple,” Syrian antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim told AFP. The inner area of the temple was “destroyed and the columns around collapsed,” he added. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that militants placed explosives around the Temple of Baalshamin, but said the explosion occurred last month. The news comes just days after ISIS militants beheaded the 82-year-old antiquities chief for Palmyra’s ancient ruins.

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