Syria warns 2,000-year-old city is in danger of being ISIL’s next cultural atrocity

Sad. Another one of the places I visited many years ago and is a world cultural and historical treasure:

A Syrian official called on the international community Thursday to protect the 2,000-year-old ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra, now threatened by the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Fighting between ISIL and Syrian government forces has come within 2 km of the 2,000-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site, which once attracted thousands of tourists to its towering Roman colonnades and temple to the god Baal. If Palmyra falls into ISIL’s hands,

Syria warns 2,000-year-old city is in danger of being ISIL’s next cultural atrocity.