article_snippet.sent: A video allegedly showing ISIS militants destroying a historic city in northern Iraq dating back to the 13th century B.C. using sledgehammers, drills and barrel bombs, has emerged this morning.
article_snippet.sent: ISIS fighters can be seen hammering and drilling away at sculptures and stone slabs believed to be some 3,000 years old in the ruins of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, located near the Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul.
article_snippet.sent: A video allegedly showing ISIS militants destroying a historic city in northern Iraq dating back to the 13th century B.C. using sledgehammers, drills and barrel bombs, purportedly shows Islamic State destroying 3,000-year-old relics before bulldozing and blowing up the ancient ruins, completely obliterating the historic site.
article_snippet.sent: An ISIS militant uses a sledgehammer to destroy a several thousand years old stone slab in a video allegedly showing the group's attack on the ancient ruins of the city of Nimrud, near Mosul, Iraq .
article_snippet.sent: As well as attacking the city of Nimrud by hand, hammer and drill, A video allegedly showing ISIS militants destroying a historic city in northern Iraq dating back to the 13th century B.C. using sledgehammers, drills and barrel bombs shows the group making barrel bombs which the group lined up along the ancient relics inside the ruins of what was once the capital of the Assyrian Empire
article_snippet.sent: , founded some time in ISIS released A video allegedly showing ISIS militants destroying a historic city in northern Iraq dating back to the 13th century B.C. using sledgehammers, drills and barrel bombs, believed to have been filmed last month, showing militants smashing artifacts in the historic city, which is on UNESCO's tentative list of world heritage sites, before blowing A video allegedly showing ISIS militants destroying a historic city in northern Iraq dating back to the 13th century B.C. using sledgehammers, drills and barrel bombs up .
article_snippet.sent: The attack on the ancient site horrified archaeologists when A video allegedly showing ISIS militants destroying a historic city in northern Iraq dating back to the 13th century B.C. using sledgehammers, drills and barrel bombs was first reported last month, and has been declared a 'war crime' by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
article_snippet.sent: The seven-minute video, posted late Saturday, shows bearded militants using sledgehammers, jackhammers and saws to take down huge alabaster reliefs depicting Assyrian kings and deities.
article_snippet.sent: A bulldozer brings down walls, while militants fill barrels with explosives and later destroy three separate areas of the ancient site in massive explosions. '
article_snippet.sent: The video, made available by a Jihadist media outlet, shows ISIS militants destroying a stoneslab with a sledgehammer at what The video, made available by a Jihadist media outlet say is the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq .
article_snippet.sent: Horrified: The attack on the ancient site has been declared a 'war crime' by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon .
article_snippet.sent: It is believed parts of the footage may be from a nearby site as some of the figures in A video allegedly showing ISIS militants destroying a historic city in northern Iraq dating back to the 13th century B.C. using sledgehammers, drills and barrel bombs appears to have rebar, ribbed steel bars designed to reinforce concrete that are a technique of modern building.
article_snippet.sent: UNESCO head Irina Bokova added: 'This is yet another attack against the Iraqi people, reminding us that nothing is safe from the cultural cleansing under way in the country: the country targets human lives, minorities, and is marked by the systematic destruction of humanity's ancient heritage,' UNESCO head Irina Bokova said .
article_snippet.sent: The end of the video allegedly shows Islamic State militants blowing up the ancient ruins near Mosul .
article_snippet.sent: One of many: This is only the most recent video purporting to show Islamic State fighters destroying invaluable heritage sites .
article_snippet.sent: This is only the most recent proof of Islamic State fighters destroying invaluable heritage sites.
article_snippet.sent: A shocking video emerged last week, showing ISIS militants using sledgehammers and AK-47 rifles to destroy walls and statues in Iraq's UNESCO World Heritage city of Hatra.
article_snippet.sent: In the slickly produced seven minute footage, jihadists are shown smashing shrines and statues in Iraq's UNESCO World Heritage city of Hatra.
article_snippet.sent: Militants are also recorded chipping away at the bases of some of the larger wall sculptures and cracking boulders into ancient city pillars, while eerie music plays in the background.
highlights_snippet.sent: ISIS fighters destroyed ancient ruins of Iraqi Assyrian city of Nimrud dating back to the 13th century B.C.
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The attack, near Mosul, took place last month, but a seven-minute video of destruction has now emerged .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: a seven-minute video of destruction shows militants hacking and drilling away at 3,000-year-old relics and blowing up the ancient ruins .
  