PALMYRA, Syria — Abdurahman Abu Hamza, a farmer from the Syrian city of Deir Ezzour, last visited the ancient ruins of ...
Khaldoun Al Raba, 32, has fond memories of his days guiding tourists around the ancient ruins of Palmyra, deep in the Syrian ...
But as he came to the Roman theatre, his eyes darkened. It was here, in 2015, that Palmyra’s new Islamic State overlords forced 25 bound and blindfolded prisoners to kneel in front of the proscenium ...