Russia to UN Security Council: “Turkey’s Gaziantep city is the largest center for selling looted antiques from Syria and Iraq”

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HISTORY FOR SALE:

The Islamic State (ISIL, ISIS or Daesh) jihadist group generates up to $200 million in annual profits from around 100,000 cultural objects it controls in Iraq and Syria selling them through the Turkish city of Gaziantep, the Russian permanent representative to the UN said in a letter to the UN Security Council presidency.

“The main centre for the smuggling of cultural heritage items is the Turkish city of Gaziantep, where the stolen goods are sold at illegal auctions and then through a network of antique shops and at the local market,” Vitaly Churkin’s letter states.

Excavations at and transportation from around 4,500 archaeological sites, nine of which are in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List, are permitted only to those in possession of a stamp and signature from the department, according to the letter.

He affirmed that around 100,000 of the world’s archeological sites are under the grip of ISIS, 9 of which are classified within the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List.

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ISIS documents expose lucrative trade of looted antiquities, from Syria-Iraq, via Turkey ~ [RT Exclusive]

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A new trove of documents, obtained by an RT Documentary crew who recently uncovered details of illicit ISIS oil business with Turkey, sheds light on jihadists’ lucrative trade of looted antiquities along their well-established oil and weapons transit routes.

There is no official accounting that would illustrate the true scale of looting being undertaken in Syria, a land once rich with cultural treasures. However, there is no doubt that since radical Islamists established a foothold in the region under raging civil war, pieces of the world’s global heritage have ended up in the hands of terrorists.

Along with oil smuggling, a lucrative trade in antiquities has become ISIS’s source of income to support its devastating operations, many of which leveled unique historic sites such as Palmyra. Artifacts, some worth thousands of dollars apiece, have been turning up in antique markets from eastern Europe to the US.

Following the exposure of the details of the ISIS oil business, RT has exclusively obtained additional evidence that sheds light on the jihadists’ black market of plundered treasures and its transit routes via Turkey.

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Daesh gangs have reduced Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery to a field of rubble

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The mercenary-terrorists (in the pockets of CIA-Mossad agencies), after looting the site, have reduced Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery to a field of rubble, in the northern city of Mosul . The compound had survived assaults by nature and men over the past 1,400 years during which it was used by generations of monks. Daesh has already destroyed and looted a number of ancient sites across Iraq and Syria. The U.N. says the terrorists have heavily looted at least one fifth of Iraq’s nearly ten-thousand artifacts in the past months, to raise cash on the Western black market and delete all types of human culture and historical memory. Curiously, this strategy seems very similar to that of another group in the Middle East, known to regard himself as the “chosen” and the rest of humanity as “talking animals”…

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Daesh helps Israel conceal historical origin

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This article was posted by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat (Ashraf62) on March 24, 2015
before the Russian military intervention in Syria
(submitted by ‘The Old Sniper’ for WarPress.info on 8/1/2016)

~~~’The Old Sniper’~~~”Once the true story of the Captivity and the Arabian origin of the Israelite tribe are exposed, the whole Zionist project could crumble under the power of the historical truth.
A body of high profile anthropologists and historians trace the Israelite tribe back to their Arabian origin in Northen Yemen. One of their amazing evidence-based findings is that Jerusalem is originally called Dar Salam/ safe house that is located near mountain Zion in Northern Yemen.
Among those tribes were the Israelites (thieves and thugs from the very beginning)”.

~~~Dr. Ashraf Ezzat~~~ “The Zionist paradigm is founded on the distorted story of the Israelites’ Exodus from Egypt and their persecution by the Assyrians and Captivity by Babylonians. But the truth is that the Israelites never set foot in Egypt or Palestine. Actually they never left Ancient Arabia and North Yemen, their origin land, before the Babylonian Captivity”

The so called Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has started losing ground.
Judging by the latest Advances of Syrian and Iraqi forces, it seems that the days of ISIL are numbered (even if they held on to their captured territories for another year or two)

Actually nobody doubted that ISIL wouldn’t last for long.
Of course it will take many decades before the people (especially in the Middle East) forget about the havoc ISIL wreaked. While cold-blooded killing and beheading is going to be the core of their legacy, looting and destruction of the ancient Iraqi artifacts and museums is definitely will be one of their key achievements.

Everything will slowly get back to normal long after ISIL has been completely crushed. The land will be liberated, the people will return to their homes and native land. One thing will remain irrevocably destroyed and lost; Iraqi and Syrian ancient heritage and history.

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Daesh’s barbarians continue to remove pieces of humanity’s historical memory: large parts of the ‘Temple of Bel’ [Palmyra] demolished

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Lion of Al-Lat, Temple of Baalshamin, Temple of Bel

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Satellite Images Confirm Partial Destruction of Famed Temple in Syria’s Palmyra: UN

Satellite images confirm the destruction of another famed temple in Syria’s Palmyra, the United Nations said late Monday.

“We can confirm destruction of the main building of the Temple of Bel as well as a row of columns in its immediate vicinity”, the UN training and research agency UNITAR said, providing satellite images from before and after a powerful blast in the ruins of the ancient city Sunday.

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Daesh Heritage Destruction in Syria is a War Crime and a Crime Against Humanity

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“We haven’t seen something similar since the Second World War,” the world body’s Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s chief Irina Bokova said on Friday.

The group laid waste to St. Elian Monastery earlier in the day in central Syria. The site houses an ancient tomb and served as a major pilgrimage site in the past.

The terrorists have overrun huge swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. They have been engaged in crimes against humanity as well as destruction of mosques, churches, and archeological sites in the areas under their control.

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“Libertá o Terrorismo”: Syrian community in Italy organizes exhibition on terrorists’ sabotage of the archeological sites

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The Syrian community in Italy organizes a photo exhibition that shed light on the elements of the Syrian civilization and the attempts of sabotage targeting them at the hands of the terrorist organizations.

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Daesh beheads Palmyra antiquities top-expert then crucifies his body

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DAESH beheads Palmyra head of antiquities Khaled Asaad in the ancient city where he had worked for 50 years – then hangs his body from a column.

The family of Khaled Asaad are said to have been told that the 82-year-old scholar who worked for more than 50 years as head of antiquities in Palmyra was executed by ISIS yesterday.

Sickening images proudly shared on social media by depraved supporters of the terror group showed the mutilated remains of Mr Assad chained to a railing, with his severed head – still wearing glasses – placed on the floor between his feet.

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Syrian Minister of Culture: “Turkey’s intelligence agency MIT steals Syria’s antiquities”

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Minister of Culture Issam Khalil said that the ministry had stepped up measures to protect the Syrian antiquities from theft and vandalism by the armed terrorist groups.

Minister Khalil added during a meeting with an Egyptian media delegation currently visiting Syria that resolution No. 2199 issued by the Security Council on protecting cultural heritage in Syria fell flat with regional and western countries as Turkish intelligence continues to rob and smuggle Syrian artifacts in coordination with ISIS terrorist organization.

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The Battle for Palmyra: What Really Happened According to Military Sources ~ [a Ziad Fadel Report]

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Daesh, foreign mercenaries, foreign-backed terrorists, ISIL, ISIS, Palmyra, Resistance, Syrian Arab Army, Syrian Archeology, Syrian Army, Syrian Heroes, Syrian Resistance, Terrorism By Proxy, Terrorist killed, Terrorists Gangs, War on Syria, War Strategy, Ziad Fadel report

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A Report by Ziad Fadel for Syrianperspective

Tadmur (Palmyra): Even nominally friendly sites like NSNBC are misreporting events in this historically important town in the far east of Homs Governorate.

Many sites are simply making the fatuous statement that the entire city of Palmyra has been overrun by ISIS fanatics and that includes Alalam and Al-Mayaadeen.

Interesting to note that neither news source has anyone on the ground there to report directly.

All inhabitants of the town have been evacuated, just like Idlib.

All corridors into the city are under the control of the SAA. SAA artillery and SAAF sorties are destroying whole nests of ISIS rats.

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ROMA, Basilica di Santa Maria: “Libertà o terrorismo”, Mostra Fotografica Patrimonio Archeologico Siriano

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L’inaugurazione della mostra fotografica organizzata da Solidarité Identités e dalla Comunità siriana in Italia è stata un successo: più di centocinquanta persone hanno partecipato, nella splendida cornice della Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin, al dibattito “Libertà o terrorismo” che ha dato il via all’esposizione sul patrimonio archeologico siriano.

Le immagini, allestite con il patrocinio del Ministero del Turismo siriano, vogliono porre l’accento su un aspetto che sistematicamente viene ignorato: a causa di una guerra inconcepibile ed inaccettabile si sta realizzando la più grande distruzione, mai avvenuta al tempo d’oggi, di un patrimonio storico, artistico e archeologico senza eguali.

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Syrian Army continues crushing operations against terrorists result in the death of scores of foreign mercenaries ~ 3 civilians killed, including 1 child, in terrorist attacks in Aleppo and Hama ~ [updated]

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The Syrian Arab Army continued crushing operations against terrorist organizations on Friday, repelling their attacks on military posts and killing increasing numbers of their members.

Army units targeted terrorist organizations’ dens and gatherings, inflicting direct losses upon the terrorists in Mazaraf, Kansafra, Ayn Lazor and Sarja villages in al-Zawia Mountain area.

Army units eliminated a large number of terrorists and destroyed caches containing rockets and mortar shells and vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns in Marj Shili, Ghmam, Kitf al-Rumman, al-Sukariyeh, Rabi’a and Kensabba in the northern countryside of Lattakia.

A military source told SANA that the army eliminated a large number of terrorists and destroyed caches containing rockets and mortar shells and vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns in Marj Shili, Ghmam and Kitf al-Rumman.

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Syrian Army strikes foreign terrorists hard ~ Barbarian jihadist mercenaries destroy archaeological sites and steal antiquities ~ [Updated Reports]

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The army kills more terrorists , establishes control on many regions (29/1/2015) ~ Units of the Syrian army and Syrian …

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Trashed Treasures: Syrian historical artifacts destroyed or smuggled abroad

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Syrian historical treasures and archeological artifacts destroyed or stolen by terrorist gangs

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Syrian Students Restore Our Global Cultural Heritage (looted by Obama’s cannibals), Tesserae By Tesserae

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Syrian Students Restore our Global Cultural Heritage, Tesserae by Tesserae By Franklin Lamb – Al Manar The Damascus Citadel, Syria …

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Extremely Serious: Barbarian Terrorists of ISIS-ISIL Have Destroyed 3000-Years-Old Assyrian Artifacts in Syria

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According to a report from the website Apsa2011, the terrorist group calling itself ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL, …

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Antiquities and Museums in Syria: NATO’s Mercenary Gangs Changed Some Archeological Sites into Training Camps

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Many Syrian archeological and historical landmarks have been damaged due to the sabotage acts of armed terrorist groups, as illicit …

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Foreign-backed Mercenary Terrorists looted more than 75 archeological pieces from Apamea

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Apamea, Apamea Museum, Apameia, foreign mercenaries, foreign-backed insurgency, foreign-backed terrorists, Hama Archeological Department, Qal'at al-Madeeq, Terrorists in Syria

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. Hama – The archeological city of Apamea (Apameia) has been a target for the terrorists since the beginning of …

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