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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Clark County commissioners have given their blessing to plans for the valley’s first Islamic cemetery, but many neighbors have yet to make peace with the project. Osama Haikal, a longtime local ...

The buyer is The Islamic Society of Greater Worcester, and it hopes to use 25 acres to develop a cemetery. If finalized, the former farm could possibly be the first predominantly Muslim cemetery ...

A six-year dispute in Stafford County over plans to develop an Islamic cemetery has ended, with the Justice Department dropping a religious discrimination lawsuit against the county this week ...

Reporting from Nicosia, Cyprus — Islamic State fighters smashed several smuggled artifacts from the ancient city of Palmyra, according to the militant group, raising new concern about the fate ...

WEBVTT ON 7 NEWS REPORTER SANDRA RAMIREZ HAS DETAILS ON THE PLANS AND REACTION TO THE IDEA. SANDRA: THE SANDOVAL COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED THE PLANS. MEMBERS 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 ...