Wrecked by Islamic State and years of war, Palmyra is finally at peace and aiming to rebuild.

Khaldoun Al Raba, 32, has fond memories of his days guiding tourists around the ancient ruins of Palmyra, deep in the Syrian ...

Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria’s most precious sight. Yet the days when awestruck tourists would clamber through the ruins of Queen Zenobia’s ...

Replicas of an arch in the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel, among the last remaining parts of an ancient Palmyra, Syria, structure demolished by the Islamic State [Daesh], will be erected in London ...

Islamic State militants in Syria have severely damaged a 2,000-year-old temple considered one of the greatest sites of the ancient world. Photo: UNESCO.

The Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency has produced a torrent of content from the battle of Palmyra in recent days. The videos, photos and statements are, of course, jihadi propaganda. The images are ...

Palmyra is famous for its 2,000-year-old towering Roman-era colonnades, other ruins and priceless artefacts ... Despite capturing Tadmur and the major Iraqi city of Ramadi this week, Isis suffered a ...

The death toll has risen to "79 pro-Iran fighters", 53 of them Syrians, 22 foreign nationals "mostly from the Iraqi Al-Nujaba movement", in addition to "four from Hezbollah", said the Observatory, ...

MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. In the coming months, Moscow will share its files on restoring Syria’s Palmyra with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and ...