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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Palmyra's famed ruins in ISIS hands

SYRIA crisis Nov 12 2010 Palmyra UNESCO sites damaged

Islamic State militants overran the famed archeological site at Palmyra early on Thursday, just hours after seizing the central Syrian town, activists and officials said, raising concerns the extremists might destroy some of the priceless ruins as they have done in neighboring Iraq.

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