MOSUL, Iraq: The new jihadist rulers of Iraq’s northern city of Mosul on Thursday (Friday in Manila) completely leveled one its most well-known shrines, an official and witnesses told Agence France-Presse.

The Nabi Yunus shrine was built on the reputed burial site of a prophet known in the Koran as Yunus and in the Bible as Jonah.

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