During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

A mosque dating from the Mamluk Sultanate ... been standing for 2,000 years or more.” Palmyra in Syria, Nimrud in Iraq: These ancient cities were critical to human history and are irreplaceable.

Syrian government forces (with a little help from Russia) battled for and recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra from ... isn’t as bad as first feared. Syria’s antiquities director, Maamoun ...

Pope John Paul II has become the first Pontiff to enter a mosque during his groundbreaking pilgrimage to Syria. The country's top Muslim clerics are escorting the Pope through Damascus' Omayyad Mosque ...

The 13th-century citadel, 12th-century Great Mosque and various 17th-century madrasas, palaces, caravanserais and hammams all form part of the city's cohesive, unique urban fabric, now threatened by ...

MOSCOW, February 6. /TASS/. Syrian experts have so far been unable to assess the damage done by militants to Syria’s recently liberated ancient city of Ebla in the Idlib province, because the ...

PALMYRA, Syria — This ancient city, once one of the most important stops on the Silk Road, bears the scars of ISIS attacks ...