A handful of local taxpayers came to watch the Palmyra Town Council Tuesday night, one month after the FOCUS investigative team found infighting within the council was leading to inaction.

Much of the new town of Tadmor was destroyed by Russian and Syrian regime bombing and artillery in the fighting. Almost all its residents fled. Palmyra turned for years into a warren of fortified ...

Earlier on Wednesday, the Al Joumhouria newspaper reported on its website that the advance detachments of the Syrian government army had entered the outskirts of the historical town of Palmyra.

TASS/. The destruction of monuments by terrorists in the Syrian ancient town of Palmyra is ‘outrageous barbarity,’ Special Representative of the Russian President for International Cultural ...