Islamic State militants behead archaeologist
Damascus: It is being reported by officials that Islamic State (IS) militants have beheaded an antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.
His headless body was later hung by the militants on a column in a main square of the historic site.
It was in May that the IS militants captured Palmyra in central Syria from the government forces. Currently, they have been controlling large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
They had not been damaged its monumental Roman-era ruins despite their no...