Militants of the so-called ’Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) takfiri group blew up an 80-year-old church in Syria’s northeastern province of Hassaka on Easter Sunday.

Militants of the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri group blew up an 80-year-old church in Syria's northeastern province of Hassaka on Easter Sunday, Syrian state news agency SANA said.

SANA stated that militants had planted explosives inside the Church of the Virgin Mary in Tel Nasri, an Assyrian village in an area where Christian and Kurdish militia have been battling ISIL.

ISIL controls the village, the news agency said on Monday.

In February, ISIL militants in the city of Tel Hermosa, Hassaka province destroyed one of Syria's oldest churches. ISIL terrorists are reported to have attacked over a dozen churches in Syrian territories under their control.

Last month, ISIL militants destroyed a 15th century Catholic monastery in the city of Mosul, Iraq; earlier, militants in Mosul burned down a church built in the 3rd Century.