Isis seizes Palmyra - live updates: Militants behead men as ancient city falls to terror group
Thousands of years worth of cultural heritage are now at risk of destruction
Isis militants have taken full control of the ancient site of Palmyra in central Syria, activists have claimed.
This is what we know so far:
• Isis fighters kill nine children near ancient site
• 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.
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.
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