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| Isis seizes Palmyra: Live updates as terror group take 'full control' of 2,000-year-old city | Isis seizes Palmyra: Live updates as terror group take 'full control' of 2,000-year-old city |
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| Isis militants have taken full control of the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria, activists have claimed. | Isis militants have taken full control of the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria, activists have claimed. |
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| • Isis fighters kill nine children near ancient city• Syria urges international community to save Palmyra • The ancient city that stands for empire and resistance | • Isis fighters kill nine children near ancient city• Syria urges international community to save Palmyra • The ancient city that stands for empire and resistance |
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| The terror group launched an offensive earlier this week and overran the 2,000-year-old Unesco World Heritage Site shortly after midnight, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. | The terror group launched an offensive earlier this week and overran the 2,000-year-old Unesco World Heritage Site shortly after midnight, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. |
| Palmyra contains world famous artefacts and monuments that Unesco fears will be bulldozed by militants, who have already razed ancient Assyrian and Roman-era sites to the ground. |