Palmyra

The target of an airstrike early Monday at the T-4 airbase in Syria was apparently an Iranian drone base.

The Israeli military on Saturday accused Iran of controlling an airbase outside the Syrian city of Palmyra, from which the army said the Iranian drone that was shot down over northern Israel earlier in the day was launched.

Syrian-born, naturalized U.S. citizen Rasheed Al Jijakli was arrested on Tuesday on allegations of repeatedly smuggling export-controlled scopes, boresighters, tactical equipment, and other items through Turkey to provide them to Syrian rebel fighters.

The Russian Navy launched cruise missiles against Islamic State targets near the Syrian city of Palmyra on Tuesday and vowed to use airstrikes against ISIS fighters fleeing the Islamic State capital of Raqqa.

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Syria’s army said Friday it shot down an Israeli plane that had been carrying out pre-dawn raids on a military target near Palmyra, the famed desert city it recently recaptured from jihadists.

The regime of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is stepping up its oil and gas purchases from the Islamic State, which is currently occupying a number of Syrian cities. Assad’s military is nominally engaged in a war to eradicate the Islamic State.

Jihadists of the Islamic State group have demolished two more treasured monuments in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra a month after recapturing it from government forces, the antiquities chief said Friday.

Speaking to French reporters this week, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad said he was “ready to negotiate everything” in an upcoming round of peace talks surrounding the six-year-old civil war in his country, including potentially stepping down as head of state.

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A new video from the Islamic State’s “news” agency Amaq purportedly shows an abandoned Russian forward base in the Syrian city of Palmyra, which was recaptured by ISIS last weekend. The video also shows Islamic State militants picking through captured Russian weapons at the base.

The American commander of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria told reporters that losing the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra to the terrorist group “is probably an embarrassment” to the Russians, and it is up to them to take it back, noting that the city is “theirs” to defend.

The Islamic State has once again attacked the Syrian city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and according to several accounts, they have recaptured the city despite heavy Russian and Syrian aerial bombardment.

A Gaza-based jihadi said he was encouraged by the Islamic State’s recent victories in Iraq and Syria.

The Islamic State organization published pictures of activists celebrating the recapture of Palmyra in central Syria.

Russian air strikes forced Islamic State fighters to retreat to the outskirts of Palmyra on Sunday, a day after they had stormed the ancient city in eastern Syria, a war monitor said.

Swiss authorities said Friday they had seized cultural relics looted from Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, as well as from Libya and Yemen, which were being stored in Geneva’s free ports.

Representatives of around 40 countries on Saturday approved plans to establish a fund to protect heritage sites in war zones and a network of safe havens for endangered artworks.

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Fierce clashes erupted between rebels and pro-government forces around Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, Saturday despite a proclamation from the Syrian military that it would extend its own cease-fire through Monday.

The Islamic State has released video of their destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that the jihadist group had under their control for ten months. In the video, jihadists can be seen running over ancient mummies, taken out of their tombs, with what appears to be a large truck.

Dictator Bashar al-Assad, seemingly ignoring President Barack Obama’s push to advance a political solution to the Syrian conflict, has reportedly vowed to “liberate” every inch of Syria.

Russia has dismissed as “propaganda” claims that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) destroyed four Russian helicopters and 20 supply trucks deployed to a military airbase in Syria which is loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has “destroyed” Russian military equipment kept at a strategic Bashar al-Assad airbase in central Syria, according to recently released satellite images.

On Thursday, the Syrian city of Palmyra, which was recently recaptured from the Islamic State, hosted a concert by Russian cellist Sergei Roldugin – who is more famous for his friendship with Russian president Vladimir Putin, and his role in the “Panama Papers” story, than his music career.

Sky News reports on the results of an “exclusive investigation into leaked secret Islamic State files,” which reveals that ISIS has been actively colluding with the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. According to Sky News, one major instance of

Substantial territorial losses have driven Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists to carry out an unprecedented number of attacks in the first three months of 2016, particularly in their Syrian and Iraqi strongholds, according to a news analysis by IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center (JTIC).

Speaking from Hannover, Germany, President Obama announced on Monday that another 250 U.S. special forces troops would be sent into Syria, joining roughly 50 special operators already deployed there.

The United States said on Thursday it was concerned about reports that Russia is moving more military equipment into Syria to bolster President Bashar al-Assad, with a truce in tatters and peace talks in meltdown.

Archeologists were on Tuesday to build a full-scale recreation of the iconic Arch of Triumph from the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra in London’s Trafalgar Square to mark its liberation from Islamic State (IS). The reconstruction, which coincides with World

Archaeologists have offered a grim assessment of the damage wrought by Islamic State militants to a museum in the Syrian city of Palmyra, suggesting it is far more extensive than was first thought. The museum itself was destroyed and some

The first foreign experts who visited the museum in Palmyra after it was taken over from Islamic State militants said they spent a week collecting fragments of priceless broken sculptures from the museum grounds and preparing them for transportation to

BEIRUT (AFP) –  The Islamic State group is under growing pressure on several fronts in Syria as rival forces battle to wrest territory from the jihadists, who are excluded from a six-week-old ceasefire. The scramble by the regime, anti-government rebels and

Syrian state media SANA has reported the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has kidnapped 300 cement workers just 30 miles northeast of Damascus.

The Russian military has allegedly removed over 1,500 mines planted in Palmyra, Syria during the Islamic State’s (ISIS) reign over the ancient city, believed to be intended to detonate simultaneously and level much of the UNESCO World Heritage Site’s priceless ruins.

Syrian and Russian forces discovered a mass grave of victims of the Islamic State, including women and children, following the liberation of the ancient city of Palmyra.