The soldiers also captured the village of Numaniya, on the edge of the city which was once the capital of an Assyrian empire stretching from Egypt to parts of modern-day Iran and Turkey.
The Iraqi government says Nimrud was bulldozed last year as part of Islamic State`s campaign to destroy symbols which the Sunni Muslim zealots consider idolatrous.
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