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 ...

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 ...

Iraqi soldiers recaptured the town of Nimrud on Sunday and the nearby ruins of the 3,000-year-old Assyrian city which was overrun and bulldozed two years ago by Islamic State militants.

Nimrud and nearby Nineveh are the sites where two Assyrian kings, Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.) and Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), recorded successful military campaigns on the walls of their ...

Video posted on a social media website purports to show the destruction of the ancient city of Nimrud by Islamic State forces. Rough cut (no reporter narration). Advertisement 1:24 0:35 1:02 ...

By ABC News March 6, 2015, 9:46 AM 3:22 International Hotspot: ISIS Bulldozes Ancient City of Nimrud in Iraq Militants tear down statues from 13th century B.C.

A video purporting to show Islamic State extremists destroying the ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud has been posted online. In the video, militants use drills, sledgehammers and a bulldozer to destroy ...

Jihadists overran Nimrud along with swathes of other territory in 2014. In April last year, ISIS released a video of its fighters destroying monuments in the city before planting explosives around ...

Two days after the ancient city of Nimrud was retaken by Iraqi forces, the BBC's Richard Galpin was one of the first people to witness the scale of the devastation left behind by so-called Islamic ...

Nimrud, shown in 1977, is a 13th century B.C. Assyrian site located on the Tigris River, just south of Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul. Photo: Heritage Images/Getty Images ...

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 ...