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The ISIS-Khurasan is Looting Cultural Heritage Sites in Balkh, the Birthplace of Rumi!

Reports from international and local media about bulldozing sites in Balkh led The Hewadwall Center to investigate. Our team, with the collaboration of local elders, discovered that ISIS controls these areas, employing young men and locals for illegal excavations. The ISIS group directs the looting, and many items being sold to traders in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. These traders are also allegedly in contact with local authorities, who may be complicit due to threats from ISIS. and this situation is dire with ISIS Khurasan benefiting directly from the looting of cultural heritage sites in Balkh........................