UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova has condemned the "barbaric destruction" of cultural heritage in Iraq, where jihadists have destroyed the ancient sites in areas under their control. Iraq has "thousands of temples, buildings, archaeological sites and works that are a real treasure for all humanity," said Irina Bokova in Baghdad where she arrived on a one-day visit to Iraq. "We cannot accept that this treasure, this heritage of humanity, would be destroyed in the most barbaric way. We must act, there is no time to waste, because extremists are trying to delete the local identity. Because they know that if there is no identity, there is no history," Bokova said.