Oldest Christian monastery in Iraq is razed

Thursday, January 21, 2016

IRBIL, Iraq -- The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, another victim of the Islamic State group's destruction of ancient cultural sites.

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