BEIRUT — Backed by Russian aircraft, Syrian troops pushed Friday toward the historic central town of Palmyra in an offensive to recapture it from the Islamic State group whose fighters have damaged ...

The United States carried out large-scale strikes in Syria against the so-called Islamic State group (IS) in retaliation for an ambush attack in Palmyra last month that killed two US soldiers and one ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Islamic State militants have blown up the Arch of Triumph, a major monument in the 2,000-year-old Roman city of Palmyra, Syria's antiquities chief said on Sunday, after they ...

DAMASCUS — Syrian state media and an opposition monitoring group say government forces backed by Russian airstrikes have driven Daesh fighters from the historic central town of Palmyra, held by the ...

US and allied forces carry out "large-scale" strikes against the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, which the US Military said in a statement on X was in response to an attack last month that left ...

Ashes,' the directorial debut of Syrian journalist Daham Alasaad, follows the dogged efforts to bring Syrian war criminals to ...

ISIS deliberately destroyed ancient monuments and sites across Iraq and Syria, including Palmyra, Nimrud, Hatra, and Mosul’s historic mosques, targeting cultural heritage as part of their extremist ...

The Syrian army closed in on the Islamic State-controlled city of Palmyra on Thursday, according to media reports. Speaking from the nearby city of Homs, Gov. Talal Barazi told The Associated Press ...