IS razes to ground the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq, satellite images show

January 20, 2016 22:56

The Islamic State group has completely destroyed a 1,400-year-old Christian monastery in Iraq, the oldest of its kind in the country.

Satellite images released on Wednesday showed just a pile of rubble where St Elijah's Monastery used to stand on a hill above Mosul, the terror group's stronghold in Iraq.

The monastery had survived as a place of Christian worship for almost one-and-a-half millenia, predating Islam itself, and had only suffered superficial damage throughout the country's most recent conflicts.

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