The Islamic militants’ attacks on religious symbols stir more passionate outrage, as their work with axes, drills, truncheons and firearms often reduces the statues and artifacts to rubble.

BAGHDAD — Islamic State militants have provoked a global outcry by attacking ancient monuments with jackhammers and bulldozers. But they also have been quietly selling off smaller antiquities ...

which the Islamic State captured in June. A video posted by the group in recent weeks shows militants using sledgehammers to knock over artifacts at the Mosul museum and destroying ancient Nineveh ...

which has imposed a violent interpretation of Islamic law, or Shariah, believes ancient relics promote idolatry. IS militants claim they are destroying ancient artifacts and archaeological ...

BAGHDAD – The Islamic State group released a video on Thursday showing militants using sledgehammers to smash ancient artifacts in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, describing the relics as idols ...

A grave marker with a family name sits planted in the Islamic Garden, a burial site for members of the Muslim faith, that is part of the Restland Cemetery.(2015 File Photo / The Associated Press ...

To Hafiz Ghaffar Khan, an Islamic spiritual leader, the plan to build a cemetery in this Atlanta suburb seemed simple. He would go to the county planning board for a permit, and, within months ...

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — The Islamic cemetery in southern Gaza was demolished, graves excised from the earth. A skull with no teeth rested atop the sandy, churned rubble. The neighborhood of ...

FARGO — The Islamic Society of Fargo-Moorhead is inviting the public to an open house at the mosque on Saturday, Nov. 5, after vaults located at a cemetery for Muslims were destroyed. The open ...