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

Islamic State militants on Sunday blew up the ancient temple of Baal Shamin in the UNESCO-listed Syrian city of Palmyra, an official said, the latest in a series of cultural relics to be destroyed by ...

Louis Vignes, Triumphal arch and great colonnade, Palmyra, Syria (1864), printed by Charles Nègre, albumen print (all images courtesy Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles) “These photographs ...

ISIS militants on Sunday blew up the temple of Baal Shamin, one of the most important sites in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, said Maamoun Abdul Karim, the country's antiquities chief. The temple ...

Syrians are once again picnicking and smoking shisha amid the ruins of ancient Palmyra, once desecrated by jihadists but still awe-inspiring, and open to the public following the overthrow of ...

"It's as though there is a curse that has befallen this city and I expect only news that will shock us. If the city remains in their hands the city is doomed," Abdulkarim told Reuters. Islamic State ...

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 ...

Where the cella of the shrine of Baal Shamin once stood, only four columns now remain. And the remains of the Arch of Triumph, dating back to the era of Roman Emperor Severus in the third century, lie ...

Islamic State militants on Sunday blew up the temple of Baal Shamin, one of the most important sites in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, said Maamoun Abdul Karim, the country's antiquities chief. The ...

Johann Sebastian Müller after Giovanni Battista Borra, “Temple of Bel,” from Robert Wood’s ‘The ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the desart’ (1753) (all images courtesy The Getty Research ...

A replica of the ancient "Arch of Triumph" in Syria now stands in London. — -- A 2,000-year-old arch, destroyed by ISIS in Syria, has been recreated in London's Trafalgar Square. The "Arch of ...

Jihadists with the Islamic State group have blown up a famous temple at Syria's ruins of Palmyra, an official said, confirming fears they would destroy more world-class heritage sites. The destruction ...