A Russian archaeological mission started working on the site but never executed its plan to rebuild the third-century Monumental Arch at the entrance of ancient Palmyra. On Dec. 7, Syrian rebels ...

Access to the ancient Palmyra, parts of it mined, was forbidden even to the few local residents who remained put. A Russian archaeological mission started working on the site but never executed its ...

Mahmoud said he wanted to reopen his stall selling trinkets and jewellery once visitors returned to Palmyra -- which attracted more than 150,000 tourists a year before civil war broke out in 2011.

they demolished the prison and later set about destroying Palmyra’s iconic monuments, including the temples of Bel and Baalshamin, as well as the Arch of Triumph, seeing them as symbols of idolatry.

IS militants later destroyed Palmyra's historic temples of Bel and Baalshamin and the Arch of Triumph, viewing them as monuments to idolatry, and beheaded an elderly antiquities scholar who had ...

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 ...