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An image grab taken off a video reportedly showing an ISIS militant pushing a statue inside the Mosul museum in the northern Iraqi Governorate of Nineveh. (Welayat Nineveh Media Office, AFP)
An image grab taken off a video reportedly showing an ISIS militant pushing a statue inside the Mosul museum in the northern Iraqi Governorate of Nineveh. (Welayat Nineveh Media Office, AFP)

Baghdad - Archaeologists expressed fears on Friday that after ransacking the Mosul museum in Iraq, ISIS would embark on a systematic destruction of heritage in areas under their control.

Particularly at risk are the ancient cities of Hatra, a Unesco world heritage site, and Nimrud. Both are south of Mosul, which has been the jihadists' main hub in Iraq since June last year.

"This is not the end of the story and the international community must intervene," said Abdelamir Hamdani, an Iraqi archaeologist at New York's Stony Brook University.

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