After occupying Palmyra last May, Isis demolished some of the best-known monuments at ... Isis is believed to have suffered about 400 deaths in resisting the army advance before retreating east to ...
"Moscow is watching with great concern the situation taking shape in Palmyra after the latter city was seized by Isil extremists," he said. "Their actions can’t be described otherwise than acts ...
SYRIAN troops swept the newly liberated city of Palmyra ... after two weeks of heavy fighting. Western praise has been muted though, with UN secretary-general Ban Ki Moon and London Mayor Boris ...