Recent Turkish airstrikes on the Kurdish-held Afrin region of northern Syria have damaged an ancient temple, with 3,000-year-old stone carvings "blasted into fragments," a watchdog group says.
The American Schools of Oriental Research's (ASOR) Cultural Heritage Initiatives collaboration has been monitoring the destruction of monuments during the war in Syria. According to the group's latest update, the temple of Ain Dara just south of Afrin suffered "heavy damage" after it was hit, sometime between Jan. 20 and Jan. 22.
The temple was built by a group of people known as the Aramaeans in the early first millennium B.C., after the collapse of the Hittite Empire, at a time when civilizations in the region were emerging from the Bronze Age and entering the Iron Age.
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Since Jan. 20, Turkey has led an assault on the Syrian Kurdish enclave Afrin, according to the Associated Press. The city is held by the People's Protection Units, a Kurdish militia known as the YPG, which Turkey considers a terrorist group and a threat to its security; the United States has considered the YPG an ally in the fight against ISIS, Reuters reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 55 civilians had been killed since the offensive, dubbed operation "Olive Branch," began, Agence France-Presse reported.
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