Despite widespread destruction throughout the ancient city of Palmyra at the hands of Islamic State (ISIS) militants, all is not lost, according to a recent UN assessment of the site. Megan Specia ...

“There was civilization in this place, and despite the shelling and destruction, there is still civilization,” said Ziad Alissa, a Syrian doctor who lives in France and visited Palmyra with ...

"But the young people and the children who died, that is the most devastating destruction. That we cannot change." "Palmyra, the ancient city, is like our mother," said Mohammed Fares, who works ...

The extremists launched a campaign of destruction, blowing up some of the most important structures of the Palmyra site, ...

Russian warplanes backed the army in its onslaught and bombarded Palmyra with airstrikes, the resultant destruction from which has yet to be revealed. "Most people in Palmyra are very poor and I ...

St PETERSBURG, January 20. /TASS/. New destructions of monuments in Palmyra come across as acts of the militants' vengeance, Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky, the Director General of the State Hermitage ...

“There was civilization in this place, and despite the shelling and destruction, there is still civilization.” ZIAD ALISSA, a Syrian doctor who lives in France and recently visited ...

Moscow , SANA- The Russian Foreign Ministry said that a team of Russian experts made a preliminary evaluation of the destruction in the archaeological city of Palmyra , adding that it will submit ...

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