Apart from palm saplings in tin cans and the olive shoots in the garden of his mud-brick dwelling, there is very little Hajj ...

Khaldoun Al Raba, 32, has fond memories of his days guiding tourists around the ancient ruins of Palmyra, deep in the Syrian ...

PALMYRA, Pa. — Hoagies on Main, a hoagie shop serving Lebanon County for eight years, "lost everything" in a fire on Friday morning, it's owners said on social media. Just before 1 a.m. on ...

It was destroyed by the IS vandals immediately after they seized Palmyra. In addition to the famous Arch of Triumph - the city’s architectural landmark, the terrorists also destroyed the Temple ...

The ruins of Palmyra are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The IS (Islamic State, banned in Russia) militants, which seized the city in 2015, destroyed several ancient monuments, including the ...

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Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria’s most precious sight. Yet the days when awestruck tourists would clamber through the ruins of Queen Zenobia’s ...

“During the war in the city of Palmyra, I often thought of these details and how they must be documented and preserved,” Maasrani said. “The war destroys the historic and cultural heritage ...