On Sunday, the Syrian government said its forces had retaken the desert city of Palmyra, in the centre of Syria. The self-declared Islamic State seized the city in May of last year -- and soon......
Islamic State militants have blown up the Arch of Triumph, a historic monument in the 2,000-year-old Roman city of Palmyra in Syria. Syria’s antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim said on......