Iraq’s director of antiquities has confirmed that Islamic State militants have ransacked the ancient city of Dur-Sharrukin near Mosul, the group’s latest assault on the country’s millennia-old heritage, The Guardian reports.
"Dur-Sharrukin’s city walls were razed, and some elements of the temples, but we don’t know the exact extent of the damage," Iraq’s director of antiquities, Qais Rasheed, told Reuters. "Looting took place, and then the razing".