IS video shows killing of government troops in amphitheater of historic Syrian

The video shows IS militants executing soldiers in an amphitheater in Tadmur-the Arabic name for the city that includes the historic Palmyra ruins- and blowing up a prison, according to private terrorist-tracking group SITE Intel Group. Hundreds of men in civilian clothes are shown sitting watching the slaughter on the steps in front of a stage with the backdrop of a large Isis flag.

3 July 2015 – Condemning the destruction of archaeological treasures from the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra as a “perverse…new attempt to break the bonds between people and their history”, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today called on the worldwide community, including the art market, to join forces and stop the traffic in cultural property.

Raqqa is Islamic State’s defacto capital for territory that spreads across Syria and Iraq. The issue was referred to an Islamic court in the Islamic State-held northern Syrian town of Manbij, which ordered that they be destroyed and the man be whipped.

The Britain-based Observatory, which collects information from sources on the ground, said the cameras were also installed to help protect the group’s senior figures in the city, who are concerned about informants passing information to its enemies.

Agence France-Presse reported June 30 that, as reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, four people – two women and their husbands – were killed by ISIS when the fundamentalist Islamic militants reportedly caught them with charms on their persons.

The ancient ruins are situated in a strategically important area on the road between the capital, Damascus, and the contested eastern city of Deir al-Zour.

Last week, a video emerged showing IS militants beheading 12 men from rival groups, among them at least three from Jaysh al-Islam and one from Al-Nusra.

Furthermore, ISIS said Thursday that it had destroyed several statues seized from a smuggler transporting them in Aleppo, a province in the north. “An ISIS checkpoint stopped a person who was carrying several statues from Palmyra”.

ISIS It is not clear when the executions in Palmyra took place.