article_snippet: Iraq's government is investigating reports that the ancient archaeological site of Khorsabad in northern Iraq has become the latest to be attacked by Islamic State.
article_snippet: Adel Shirshab, the country's tourism and antiquities minister, said there are concerns militants had removed artefacts and blown up the ancient archaeological site of Khorsabad in northern Iraq, located nine miles north-east of Mosul.
article_snippet: Saeed Mamuzini, a Kurdish official from Mosul, said militants had already begun demolishing the ancient archaeological site of Khorsabad in northern Iraq on Sunday, citing multiple witnesses.
article_snippet: The foundations of an ancient palace in the Assyrian city of Khorsabad which has reportedly been looted and destroyed by Islamic State militants near the Iraqi city of Mosul .
article_snippet: Officials in the northern city of Mosul confirmed militants with the terror group have begun destroying the site.
article_snippet: Iraq's minister of tourism and antiquities said the government was also investigating reports that the ancient archaeological site of Hatra in north west Iraq is being demolished by militants from the terror group .
article_snippet: the terror group has been campaigning to purge ancient relics the terror group say promote idolatry that violates the terror group fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law.
article_snippet: Yesterday, officials officials  reported the jihadists have begun destroying the siteHatra northern Iraq.
article_snippet: It comes after fanatics went on a rampage in the northern city of Mosul in northern Iraq, destroying the 3,000 year-old winged statues placed at the gates of the Palace of Ashurnasirpal.
article_snippet: A video released last week also showed them smashing artefacts in the Mosul museum.
article_snippet: In January, the terror group also burned hundreds of books from the Mosul library and Mosul University, including many rare manuscripts.
article_snippet: ISIS extremists targeted a museum in Mosul using power drills and sledge hammers to destroy artefacts .
highlights_snippet: Witnesses say militants began demolishing ancient ruins at the weekend .
  