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On Thursday, Syrian jets had carried out at least 12 air strikes on Raqqa, Islamic State’s de facto capital in the north.

Speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, he said around 24 people were killed and many others wounded, with many of them in critical condition.

Syrian warplanes unleashed a wave of deadly airstrikes on the Islamic State-held town of Palmyra in central Syria on Friday, killing at least 15 and wounding many more, activists said, in some of the heaviest bombardment since the extremist group seized the ancient town May 10.

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

This photo shows the horrific moment that barbaric ISIS warlords forced a young boy to behead a prisoner in public.

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...

An elderly man, against the backdrop of the notorious IS flag, reads a document to the assembled crowd while IS fighters stand behind the captives, kneeling with their hands tied at the back.

In the video, a group of several hundred men watch as the soldiers are forced to their knees, guns to their heads, and executed.The BBC reports that the Islamic State has said that the executed men were soldiers captured in the city of Homs.

ISIL-controlled territory contains some of the richest archaeological treasures on earth in a region where ancient Assyrian empires built their capitals, Graeco-Roman civilisation flourished, and Muslim and Christian sects co-existed for centuries.

Islamic State group militants have released a video that apparently shows a mass execution within the ruins of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.

“It’s the most serious crime they have committed against Palmyra’s heritage”, Maamoun Abdulkarim, the head of the Syrian government’s Antiquities and Museums Department, told the AFP.