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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.