“This destruction is a new war crime and an immense loss for the Syrian people and for humanity,” Irina Bokova, director general of the UN cultural agency, said in a statement following reports that IS destroyed Palmyra’s tetrapylon monument and the facade of the city’s Roman amphitheatre. The Assad regime lost control of Palmyra (Tadmur) to Daesh in December, the second time the terrorist group had overrun the UNESCO world heritage site in the six-year-long Syrian conflict.
ISIL militants destroy part of Palmyra's ancient Roman theatre.