| O brave, brave neo-Ottoman Lions! To so destroy the undefended patrimony that once was yours before losing WWI also lost the empire. |
The Iron Age neo-Hittite temple of Ain Dara dates back to the Aramean era, from around 1300 to 700 BC, and is named after a village located in the Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
launched Operation "Olive Branch" on January 20, against the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Afrin, supporting Syrian opposition fighters with ground troops and air strikes.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the temple was struck by air strikes on Friday.
"It has been destroyed up to 60 percent," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
Syria’s antiquities department, a government agency, confirmed the attack on "one of the most important monuments built by the Arameans in Syria during the first millennium BC".