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 ruins of the ancient city. When a tourist handed him a camera to ...

The United States carried out large-scale strikes in Syria against the so-called Islamic State group (IS) in retaliation for an ambush attack in Palmyra last month that killed two US soldiers and one ...

BEIRUT — Backed by Russian aircraft, Syrian troops pushed Friday toward the historic central town of Palmyra in an offensive to recapture it from the Islamic State group whose fighters have damaged ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Islamic State militants have blown up the Arch of Triumph, a major monument in the 2,000-year-old Roman city of Palmyra, Syria's antiquities chief said on Sunday, after they ...

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 ...

The U.S. military conducted a strike in northwest Syria on Friday that killed an Al-Qaeda leader with ties to an alleged ISIS gunman who killed three Americans in an ambush last month, according to ...

The Syrian army closed in on the Islamic State-controlled city of Palmyra on Thursday, according to media reports. Speaking from the nearby city of Homs, Gov. Talal Barazi told The Associated Press ...

The impact of a strike on an Islamic State target in Syria shown in footage released by US Central Command. The US military launched a series of “large-scale strikes against multiple ISIS [Islamic ...

US and allied forces carry out "large-scale" strikes against the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, which the US Military said in a statement on X was in response to an attack last month that left ...

BEIRUT, May 21 (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters in Syria have entered the ancient ruins of Palmyra after taking complete control of the central city, but there are no reports so far of any ...