article_snippet.sent: A shocking video has emerged of ISIS thugs 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: In the shocking footage, ISIS thugs batter relics Authorities claim are 'false idols' in the 2,000-year old city of Hatra .
article_snippet.sent: A militant chips away at a pillar in Hatra with a pickaxe - the UN has called their actions a 'war crime' A militant slams a 'war crime' axe into a pillar in the World Heritage site - ISIS believes statues and shrines are un-Islamic 'false idols' that must be destroyed .
article_snippet.sent: A militant takes aim at three religious relics on the side of a historic building in the 2,000-year old city .
article_snippet.sent: ISIS have destroyed ancient relics such as this in Hatra, as they violates they fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law .
article_snippet.sent: Last month, ISIS terrorists were pictured toppling crosses, smashing Christian relics with hammers and erecting the black flag of ISIS on churches in Nineveh, the ancient capital of the Assyrian empire.
article_snippet.sent: Pictured in civilian clothing, ISIS terrorists were seen overturning statues, destroying religious icons and replacing Christian crosses with the chilling ISIS banner.
article_snippet.sent: Elsewhere, ISIS went on a rampage in the Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, destroying the 3,000 year-old winged statues placed at the gates of the Palace of Ashurnasirpal.
article_snippet.sent: The jihadists also bulldozed ruins in Hatra in March.
article_snippet.sent: ISIS have also set off bombs around Mosul Central Library, destroying as many as 10,000 priceless and irreplaceable books and manuscripts.
highlights_snippet.sent: Jihadists shown smashing shrines and statues in 2,000-year old city that was declared a World Heritage site in 1987 .
  