In yet another display of the Islamic State’s destruction, the Syrian government confirmed Sunday that the militant group destroyed the treasured Temple of Baal Shamin in the ancient city of ...

Islam prohibits such representations of Allah and a 360-degree view of inside the Kaaba confirmed no such statue exists. The ...

an even grander structure that was consecrated to the Semitic god Baal. The Islamic State has controlled Palmyra since May 2015, and in a radio broadcast on May 27, 2015, an Islamic State leader ...

Islamic State militants have destroyed a historic temple in the city Palmyra, an antiquities expert has told ITV News. The Baal Shamin temple was one of the most complete buildings in the Unesco ...

The temple of Baal Shamin in the historic city of Palmyra, Syria, in 2009. The Islamic State destroyed the temple in late August. (Stringer) Why should people care about the past or the future?

To Islam’s west lay Egypt and the rest of Christian ... in the west and Greek-speaking Byzantines in the east, with a few Baal-worshipers in the south. Africa’s theological divisions ran ...

Islamic State militants have blown up the Temple of Baal Shamin, one of the most important sites in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, the country's antiquities chief Maamoun Abdul Karim says.

The Islamic State militant group has published images showing the destruction of the Baal Shamin temple in Syria's Palmyra, after international condemnation of the act. The series of images showed ...

Activists report that Islamic State (IS) militants have blown up the ancient temple of Baal Shamin in the UNESCO-listed Syrian city of Palmyra. Syria's antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim said on ...

Islamic State group supporters on social media also did not immediately mention the temple’s destruction. RELATED: There will be no pyramids, threatens ISIS Now a memory ... The Temple of Baal ...