It has always been a dream to return here,” said Abu Hamza, one of the few visitors to Palmyra since last month’s downfall of ...

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 histories of the Temple of Bel ... all destroyed by so called Islamic state in and around Palmyra. Show more In May 2015, the Syrian city of Palmyra was captured by the forces of the so ...

TASS /. The Crimean authorities and the Syrian Ministry of Culture have agreed that world-famous Crimean renovators will engage in the restoration of the monuments of Palmyra, an ancient city ...

Syrian violinist Rania Maasrani is considered ... Her latest exhibition was titled “Inspired by Palmyra” and included works in sculpture and Ajami painting. She said her aesthetic vision ...

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 ...

Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that the Syrian ... up the Temple of Baalshamin and the sanctuary of the supreme Semitic god Baal.

PALMYRA, Syria—Abdurahman Abu Hamza, a farmer from the Syrian city of Deir Ezzour, last visited the ancient ruins of Palmyra on a school trip as a child. Last week, he strolled with friends past ...