Barack Obama Has Allowed ISIS To Destroy One of Iraq’s Oldest Christian Sites

President Obama ignored a general’s pleas to keep American military forces in Iraq. The last American commander in Iraq recommended to the Obama administration that 23,000 U.S. troops remain to cement the victory, but Obama refused to make a deal and in December 2011, the U.S. military left.



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The Islamic State destroyed one of the oldest Christian sites in Iraq as part of its campaign against ancient sites in the country, according to satellite photographs published by The Associated Press on Wednesday and confirmed by Iraqi officials and historians.

The monastery of St. Elijah, or Dair Mar Elia, stood for more than 1,400 years above a riverbed south of the city of Mosul, which the Islamic State seized from Iraqi forces in June 2014. The satellite photographs — taken by DigitalGlobe, a company with headquarters in Westminster, Colo. — showed that the monastery was razed in late August or September 2014, including the site’s square complex of partly ruined rooms and a largely intact sanctuary that dated from the...
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