Smuggler Explains How ISIS Turns Ancient Artifacts Into Mass Profit

2016 / 07 / 27 1005

The world has already witnessed the barbarity with which ISIS treats precious monuments, but now, a smuggler is showing how they are selling the artifacts to fund their terror.

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