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SDF commander pledges to protect historic sites from ISIL

#ISIL destroyed several ancient and medieval sites across Syria and Iraq in the 2010s – when it controlled large swaths of both countries – as the extremist group imposed its fundamentalist vision of Salafi Islam.

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The ancient Roman city of Palmyra, northeast of Damascus in Syria, where ISIL beheaded one of the country’s most prominent antiquities scholars, Khaled Asaad, in 2015 [Youssef Badawi/EPA]