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Monday 24 Aug 2015 - 13:22 Makkah mean time-9-11-1436
 Damascus (IINA) - Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants on Sunday blew up the ancient temple of Baal Shamin in the UNESCO-listed Syrian city of Palmyra, AFP reported quoting the country’s antiquities chief.
“Daesh placed a large quantity of explosives in the temple of Baal Shamin today and then blew it up causing much damage to the temple,” said Maamoun Abdulkarim, using another name for ISIS. Over the past several months, ISIS have blown up and defaced historical sites and artifacts across their sprawling self-proclaimed "caliphate" stretching across Iraq and Syria. ISIS took control of Palmyra in May, located in the central desert region of the country, sparking worldwide concern that they would destroy its 2,000 year-old ruins.
Last week, the militants caused uproar when they beheaded Khaled Asaad, an 82-year-old antiquities scholar living in Palmyra, reportedly because he refused to reveal where some artifacts were hidden. In June, ISIS destroyed two ancient Muslim mausoleums in Palmyra.
Then in July, the militants used Palmyra's ancient amphitheatre as a stage to kill 25 Syrian soldiers, and released a video of the mass execution. The fate of Palmyra's remaining ruins - including its dozens of standing Roman-era columns - remains unclear.
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