article_snippet: Islamic State extremists have continued Islamic State extremists attack on Iraq's cultural and historical heritage by bulldozing a second ancient site, officials say.
article_snippet: Days earlier, the terror group targeted  a museum in Mosul, toppling statues, and using power drills and sledgehammers to destroy artefacts - as part of a wider plan to rid the terror group territory of symbols its territory of symbols say promote idolatry.
article_snippet: Today, Saeed Mamuzini, a Kurdish official from Mosul began to destroy the 2,000-year-old city.
article_snippet: ISIS extremists targeted a museum in Mosul using power drills and sledge hammers to destroy artefacts .
article_snippet: Islamic State has been campaigning to purge ancient relics ancient relics say promote idolatry that violates ancient relics fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law.
article_snippet: A week ago, militants released a video showing militants smashing statues and carvings in the Mosul's museum, which is home to priceless Assyrian and Hellenistic artefacts dating back 3,000 years.
article_snippet: An ISIS fanatic uses a power tool to destroy a winged-bull Assyrian deity at a museum in Mosul last week .
article_snippet: A temple to the Shamash sun god still stands more than 1,750 years after the Parthian Empire razed the city of Mosul.
article_snippet: Last year, the militants destroyed the mosque believed to be the burial place of the Prophet Younis, or Jonah, as well as the Mosque of the Prophet Jirjis — both revered ancient shrines in Mosul.
article_snippet: the militants also threatened to destroy Mosul's 850-year old Crooked Minaret, but residents surrounded the structure, preventing the militants from approaching.
article_snippet: But the relentless havoc wreaked by Islamic State, has not been limited to ancient monuments, but also extended to rival Muslim places of worship .
article_snippet: Last July, militants destroyed the tomb of the prophet Jonah in .
highlights_snippet: Days earlier, jihadists targeted museum using sledgehammers and drills  to destroy artefacts .