The United Kingdom says it joined France in overnight air strikes on an underground facility near Palmyra in Syria that is ...

A powerful blast in the ruins of Syria's ancient Palmyra raised fears Monday that the Islamic State group has damaged another of the Middle East's most treasured heritage sites. Both Syria's ...

BEIRUT -- Islamic State militants have destroyed a temple at Syria's ancient ruins of Palmyra, activists said Sunday, realizing the worst fears archaeologists had for the 2,000-year-old Roman-era city ...

This photo released May 17, by the Syrian official news agency Sana, shows the general view of the ancient Roman city of Palmyra, northeast of Damascus, Syria. Activists say Islamic State militants ...

The head of the UN cultural watchdog on Monday branded the destruction by IS jihadists of an ancient temple in Syria's Palmyra ruins as a "war crime." "This destruction is a new war crime and an ...

The Islamic State jihadist group has blown up parts of the Temple of Bel in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, a monitor and activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said late Sunday that ...

MOSCOW, July 14. /TASS/. Palmyra’s ancient Temple of Baalshamin and Palmyra Castle, known as Fakhr-al-Din al-Ma’ani Castle, may be restored as the damage is reparable but the Arch of Triumph and ...

PALMYRA, Syria — When Islamic State fighters overran the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra almost a year ago, Maha Abderrazak was among tens of thousands of terrified civilians who fled west, many ...

ISIS militants have destroyed part of the ancient Temple of Bel complex, one of the most important structures in the ancient world, in the Syrian city of Palmyra ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released propaganda images Tuesday that purport to show ...

In summer 2016, the Temple of Bel, among other important archaeological monuments of the World Heritage Site of Palmyra, was intentionally destroyed. An element of the structure of the Temple, the ...