Ashes,' the directorial debut of Syrian journalist Daham Alasaad, follows the dogged efforts to bring Syrian war criminals to ...

The Symphony Orchestra of St Petersburg at Palmyra on May 5 (screenshot via YouTube by the author for Hyperallergic) Since its capture by ISIS in May of 2015, Palmyra has become a kind of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three people, including two US Army soldiers and a US civilian working as an interpreter, were killed on Saturday after an attack on US and Syrian forces during a visit to the historic town of Palmyra ...

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 ...

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 U.S. troops who were killed and injured in Saturday’s ambush attack in Syria were members of the Iowa National Guard, a senior U.S. official told Fox News. An ISIS gunman opened fire with an ...

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 ...

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 ...