World Heritage site destroyed in clashes

Fighting between Kurdish rebels and Turkish forces damages ancient walls ranked with the Taj Mahal and Egypt's pyramids

When the United Nations inscribed the Roman-era walls of this mainly Kurdish city on its World Heritage List last year, it crowned a decade of efforts to rehabilitate a war-torn region.

Within weeks, a cease-fire with Kurdish militants in southeastern Turkey shattered, unleashing some of the worst fighting in a three-decade conflict and laying waste to swathes of Diyarbakir's ancient district of Sur.