{"id":157275,"date":"2015-10-05T06:59:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T06:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=157275"},"modified":"2015-10-05T06:59:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T06:59:11","slug":"islamic-state-blows-up-palmyra-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/islamic-state-blows-up-palmyra-arch\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State ‘blows up Palmyra arch’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Islamic State militants in northern Syria have blown up another monument in the ancient city of Palmyra, officials and local sources say.<\/p>\n
The Arch of Triumph was “pulverised” by the militants who control the city, a Palmyra activist told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
It is thought to have been built about 2,000 years ago.<\/p>\n
IS fighters have already destroyed two ancient temples at the site, described by Unesco as one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world.<\/p>\n
“The Arch of Triumph was pulverised. IS has destroyed it,” Mohammad Hassan al-Homsi, an activist from Palmyra told AFP on Monday.<\/p>\n
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group monitoring the conflict, said sources on the ground had confirmed the destruction.<\/p>\n
Syrian antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim also confirmed the news, and told Reuters news agency that if IS remains in control of Palmyra, “the city is doomed”.<\/p>\n