Drone footage taken over the ancient northern Iraqi site of Nimrud has been released showing the extent of the damage suffered at the hands of ISIL.

It's estimated up to 70 percent of the city may have been destroyed. Until it was overrun by the extremists in 2015, locals living near Nimrud had guarded the ruins.

Khaled Gabry, a local resident, said:"With the collapse of Saddam's regime and the intervention of the United States, Iraq was left with no government. So we decided to call the trib…
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