An Australian Greens parliamentarian, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, once referred to the Islamic State at The Other. In short, the Islamic State should not be "demonised" as "terrorists": http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;db=CHAMBER;id=chamber%2Fhansards%2F49cdeae9-b762-449e-9e05-7239b8940f5f%2F0090;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansards%2F49cdeae9-b762-449e-9e05-7239b8940f5f%2F0142%22
This article from The Guardian tells a very different story: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/01/isis-destruction-of-palmyra-antiquities-revealed-in-new-pictures
And then there is this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-02/palmyra-mass-grave-islamic-state-victims-found-syria-army-source/7294904
