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islamic state. they consider them idolatrous. >> ( translated ): when the islamic state took the they occupied my house and clinic and said i'm annfidel because my wife is a christian, and i am a muslim. and i di't force her to nvert to islam. the islamic state saying marrying a christian is forbidden, so they condemned me in my absence, beheaded, and have my head displayed from that lamp post. >> reporter: here? >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: this lamp post. ou yeah, yeah. >> reporter: and ybody. >> yeah. >> reporter: a few streets away in the main square, the remains of the cages where prisoners condemned to execution were kepl by theist insurgents. they've gone, though they still fight in the desert around the city. palmyra, a world heritage site, further damaged by war, and a modern city burned, broken, and largely abandoned. >> sreenivasan: that's all for this editi pbs newshour weekend. i'm sarsar. have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. tethe cheryl and philip mi family. sue and edgar wache

is all that's left of the central library in mosul after occupation by the so-called islamic state ended it once housed half a million books before it has bombings and fires armed with lanterns and willpower twenty locals united in their love for their city have joined forces to salvage everything they can. i could do with his shoes john these books aren't jewels they deserve to be saved despite the immense destruction these books are still here in the future. and april twenty seven thousand tiny celeb joined the most and i campaigned to save her city's books. so far more than thirty thousand have been salvaged thanks to the commitment and the through ziyad some of the volunteers. books are our life our history our souls. the volunteers come to the library every day and the most i project is also gathering donations people from around the world can send books and any language to help restock the devastated library the volunteers are determined to rescue as many books as they possibly can. the library has been burned and destroyed but we must go on we have to return to our lives as they were before i as

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islamic state but they pick the wrong one. they would come to me and tell me to leave the house but i wouldn't. they occupied our neighbor's house and made it their headquarters. i believe they killed the house yes he was killed they said it was a regime thark and killed him but we didn't leave our house we refused. and. i aspire has told was not to shut down his shop and remarry all live off islamic charity. and that they were me and after i refused to obey three times they threatened to take me to the religious police. and i told them if i leave the shop i will break to stick on your head i'd rather fire a bullet into my head than leave my shop at the. when she stood her ground and i aspired to hit her. they came to the shop and told me to go with them to the religious police. i asked them why because i refused to close my shop and i told him that if you were a real man you wouldn't hit a woman why did you slap me. was his bravery is remarkable and she still struggles with what she endured. and also that time has what more can i say. they mistreated us what can i say. only god can help us mov

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