Iraqi Antiquities

The United States filed suit in court Thursday to recover an ancient serpentine ring and gold coins trafficked by the ISIS in a move aimed at preventing stolen Syrian and Iraqi antiquities from disappearing into collectors' hands.

The Islamic State group began bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq on Thursday, the government said, in the jihadists' latest attack on the country's historical heritage.

Islamic State militants who destroyed priceless antiquities from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have kept some artefacts to sell, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said today, vowing to prevent the radical Islamists from smuggling them to market.

The exhausted Kurdish fighters leaned against a pair of antiquated green cannons on a hill overlooking this northern Iraqi village, the ground around them littered with shrapnel from fierce battles with Islamic State militants.

The United States filed suit in court Thursday to recover an ancient serpentine ring and gold coins trafficked by the ISIS in a move aimed at preventing stolen Syrian and Iraqi antiquities from disappearing into collectors' hands.

The Islamic State group began bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq on Thursday, the government said, in the jihadists' latest attack on the country's historical heritage.

Islamic State militants who destroyed priceless antiquities from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have kept some artefacts to sell, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said today, vowing to prevent the radical Islamists from smuggling them to market.

The exhausted Kurdish fighters leaned against a pair of antiquated green cannons on a hill overlooking this northern Iraqi village, the ground around them littered with shrapnel from fierce battles with Islamic State militants.