Islamic State group fighters have entered the museum in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, placing guards at its doors, the country’s antiquities director Mamoun Abdulkarim said Saturday. He also ...

The Islamic State group on Saturday released a video showing 25 Syrian government soldiers being executed by teenagers in the ancient amphitheatre in the city of Palmyra. The video documented an ...

DUBAI, November 1. /TASS/. Restoration of Syria’s Palmyra from the damage caused by the Islamic State (or IS, a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia) and civil war may take up to seven years and ...

View of the ruins at Palmyra, Syria, in 2010 (photo by Marc Veraart, via Flickr) The UNESCO World Heritage Site, according to the UN cultural agency, “offers the consummate example of an ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A French Rafale fighter plane. French military confirmed Sunday it had carried out joint strikes with the UK against Islamic State ...

Syrian state antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim said the family of Khaled Asaad had informed him that the 82-year-old scholar who worked for over 50 years as head of antiquities in Palmyra was ...

Nearly 30 years ago, Mike Burgess travelled through Syria, exploring the multi-layered and ever evolving ancient cities of ...

DAMASCUS — Syrian state media and an opposition monitoring group say government forces backed by Russian airstrikes have driven Daesh fighters from the historic central town of Palmyra, held by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early days of the Syrian uprising, Daham Alasaad was working as a tour guide in his native Palmyra, leading a group through ...

The goal was to determine whether the arch of Palmyra could be rebuilt on the existing foundation, whether it required reinforcement, or needed to be reconstructed entirely, and it turned out that the ...

US President Donald Trump, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and other officials attend a ceremony marking the return of the bodies of three Americans killed in Syria — ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS US forces ...