ISIS for the day

The BBC has an article about the latest by these nudniks:

Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Syria have blown up another monument in the ancient city of Palmyra, officials and local sources say.
"The Arch of Triumph (photo) was pulverized. IS has destroyed it," Mohammad Hassan al-Homsi, an activist from Palmyra, told AFP on Monday. It is thought to have been built about two thousand years ago.
IS fighters have already destroyed two ancient temples at the site, described by UNESCO as one of the most important cultural centers of the ancient world.
More than 150,000 tourists visited Palmyra every year before the Syrian conflict.
The London, England-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group monitoring the conflict, said sources on the ground had confirmed the destruction.
Syrian antiquities chief Maamoun Abdul Karim also confirmed the news, and told Reuters news agency that, if IS remains in control of Palmyra, "the city is doomed".
UNESCO's director general Irina Bokova has said the destruction constitutes a "war crime" and called on the international community to stand united against IS efforts to "deprive the Syrian people of its knowledge, its identity and history".
IS believes shrines or statues represent idolatry, and should be destroyed.
In August of 2015, the group destroyed the ancient Temple of Baalshamin, one of the city's best-known buildings, built nearly two thousand years ago. The group has also published photos of militants destroying what it said were artifacts looted at Palmyra.
IS militants captured the historic site from Syrian government troops in May of 2015, amid a series of setbacks for forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
Last week, Russia, one of Assad's key backers, launched air strikes in Syria, saying it was targeting IS and other extremist groups.
But members of the US-led coalition that has also been carrying out air strikes in Syria have strongly criticized the move, saying Russia appeared to be targeting more moderate anti-Assad rebels than IS.
Turkey, one of the countries to criticize Russia's intervention, said it had intercepted a Russian warplane on Saturday in Turkish airspace, and had summoned the Russian ambassador in protest.
Syria's conflict, which began in 2011, has left more than a quarter million people dead and about half the country's population displaced.

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