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IS Publishes Photos of Ruined Palmyra Temple

Photos posted online by Islamic State on Tuesday claim to show the destruction of a 2,000-year-old temple at the Syrian world heritage site of Palmyra earlier this week. In the series of images, several men carry barrels into the Roman-era Baal Shamin temple, lining the base and placing the containers connected by blue wire on columns. Other photos show a cloud of smoke and debris, and dust-covered hunks of rubble, presumably in the aftermath of Sunday's explosion. UNESCO called...


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