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Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

Syrian government forces (with a little help from Russia) battled for and recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra from the grip of ISIS this weekend. The retaking of the city, a UNESCO World ...

Once on the civil war's front line, the medieval souk, the major Syrian city's former bustling heart, is now largely ...

NPR's Lauren Frayer has more from Aleppo, Syria's commercial capital, which was once a center for the gold trade in the ancient world. (SOUNDBITE OF RUBBLE FALLING) LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE: This is the ...

The land's ancient Christian communities — the biblical Book of Acts notes that "in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians" — were decimated by the Syrian civil war that began ...