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The extremists destroyed the smaller Temple of Baalshamin in the complex last week.

Another attack on riot police in southeastern Mardin province late Friday injured at least 24 people, including 10 policemen, security sources said.

With reports still coming in from the front, Rudaw’s Hiwa Hisamadin estimated that 18 ISIS fighters had been killed and a number of villages recaptured in Daquq district less than 40km south of Kirkuk city.

Daesh terrorists took another two villages further north in Aleppo province, near the border with Turkey.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday it had treated four members of a family who suffered from breathing difficulties and developed blisters after a mortar hit their home in Marea.

A number of Mare’a residents said they suffered from asphyxiation after the ISIL terrorists fired shells seemingly containing toxic materials at the town on Saturday, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported.

A fresh general election in Turkey will be held on November 1, almost five months after an inconclusive election saw no party win an overall majority.

Jessica Stern, director of the worldwide Gay and Lesbian Rights Commission, informed members at the meeting about IS militants’ executions of at least 30 gay men for “sodomy” and the videos or photos that had been uploaded by them to show their merciless killings.

As The Post’s Ishaan Tharoor reported the United Nations’ cultural agency, UNESCO, called the attack on the temple a war crime.

United Nations: The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for executing at least 30 people for sodomy, the head of an worldwide gay rights organisation said today at the first-ever UN Security Council meeting spotlighting what organisers called the...

About giving the Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu the mandate before the 45-day deadline, Erdogan said: “Why would I invite him [Kilicdaroglu] to Bestepe [Presidential Palace], [he] who said “I do not recognize Bestepe”.

ISIS members have executed at least 30 LGBT people, Jessica Stern, executive director of the worldwide Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, reported at Monday’s meeting.

Erdogan was expected to re-appoint Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to form an interim government during a meeting on Tuesday.

In the neighboring province of Siirt on Wednesday, eight Turkish soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb, the single deadliest strike against the military since the cease-fire collapsed last month.

He’s believed to have favoured a brand new election, and Turkey’s fundamental opposition chief has accused the president of obstructing the coalition-building efforts, a cost Erdogan denies.