When footage emerged of ISIS destroying the ancient city of Nimrud outside Mosul, the world stood powerless in the face of a group of militants using sledgehammers and electric drills to ...

Islamic State fighters ransacked and bulldozed the centuries-old archaeological site of Nimrud in northern Iraq on Thursday, in what the head of the U.N.’s cultural agency decried as a ...

Iraq says ancient city of Nimrud destroyed by Daesh In 2015, Daesh militants destroyed relics in the ancient city for what it says their “un-Islamic” nature 16.11.2016 - Update : 16.11.2016 ...

An Iraqi soldier stands in front a damaged part of the ancient site of Nimrud, which was destroyed by Islamic State militants, some 19 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Mosul, Iraq, Nov. 16, 2016.

Government forces recaptured Nimrud as part of a wider assault on Mosul, the last major IS stronghold in Iraq. A senior source in the Iraqi military's Nineveh Operations command reported ...

The scale of the damage done by Islamic State militants to the ancient city of Nimrud is beginning to emerge, two days after it was retaken by Iraqi forces. Much of the area lies in rubble, with ...

Nimrud was the capital of the Assyrian empire between approximately 1250 BC and 610 BC. In 2015, Daesh militants destroyed relics in the ancient city for what it says their “un-Islamic” nature.

Nimrud stood as a treasure of civilisation for 3,300 years. Islamic State vandals have smashed it to bits Islamic militancy + FOLLOW Associated Press + FOLLOW Published: 12:11pm, 17 Nov 2016 ...

Iraqi soldiers stand amid destruction caused by the IS at the archaeological site of Nimrud, some 30 kilometres south of Mosul in the Nineveh province, on November 15, 2016, a few days after Iraqi ...

But if legitimate, a crater is all that remains of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, one of Iraq's greatest archaeological treasures. Monuments under attack 16 photos ...

Nimrud: Photos show IS destruction of ancient Iraqi city The BBC was the first international broadcaster to reach Nimrud and assess the destruction 15 November 2016 ...

BAGDAHD — The Iraqi military said Sunday that soldiers south of Mosul have recaptured the Nimrud area, home to the site of an ancient Assyrian city that was blown up by the Islamic State group ...