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 ...

Khaled al-Asaad, who served as the director general of the Palmyra Directorate of Antiquities and Museums from 1963 to 2003, was beheaded Tuesday by ISIS fighters in the ancient city. The Guardian ...

Palmyra, Syria — Atop the ruins of Syria’s famed Palmyra theater, recently recaptured from the Daesh (the so-called IS) group, teenage musician Angel Dayoub sings an old Arabic favorite: “We’re coming ...

President Trump vowed to respond Saturday after an attack on US and coalition forces killed three US service members in Palmyra, Syria. “We will retaliate,” Trump said, asked by reporters about the ...

Donald Trump has vowed to inflict "very serious retaliation" after an Islamic State ambush in Syria that killed three ...

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 ...

The ambush near Palmyra, which claimed the lives of two American soldiers — and a civilian interpreter, has abruptly forced Syria back onto the global agenda. For the first time since the fall of the ...

PALMYRA, Syria (AP) — The stately remnants of 2,000-year-old columns and temples rise from the sand in the ancient city of Palmyra, known to locals as the “Bride of the Desert.” Once the capital of a ...

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 ...