Today's Gallery (13.04.2015)

This picture shows smoke billowing from an ancient site after it was wired with explosives by Islamic State (ISIS) militant group in northern Iraq. ISIS has released a video showing militants using power tools and bulldozers to deface and destroy ancient monuments in the Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, before the site is levelled with explosives. Damage to the site was first reported in March, but the undated video lays bare the full scale of destruction, as the city is completely demolished. ISIS has previously attacked a number of other Assyrian sites in Iraq and destroyed countless manuscripts, books and other artefacts as they are deemed un-Islamic and blasphemous. Photo: AFP