At least 30 Syrian soldiers and Iran-backed militias have been killed in an attack by Islamic State (IS) fighters at a military post. The attack was at the ancient city of Palmyra in the east of Syria.
The Syrian army of President Bashar al-Assad has released the last town of interest in the Homs province from Islamic State. Al-Sukhna, located about 50 kilometers from the historic city of Palmyra, was attacked on Saturday from three sides, reports state sanatorium SANA.
A German former member of Islamic State (IS) will be tried in Germany for coercion to sixfold murder. The 28-year-old man from Bremen, who is in Germany, would have participated in the shooting of five Syrian soldiers and a sonic preacher in 2015 in the Syrian city of Palmyra.
During the night of Wednesday, the Russian Air Force destroyed three IS convoys in Syria on Thursday. In addition, eighty warriors of the terrorist organization came to life, a source said in the Russian Ministry of Defense Thursday against the press office TASS.
From Russian naval ships in the Mediterranean Sea, four cruising missiles were fired on positions of the Islamic State terrorist movement in Syria. Russian media reported that the missiles were launched from a frigate and a submarine and targeted by Islamic State (IS) in the vicinity of Palmyra.
The US attack on the airbase al-Shayrat, according to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reckless and shortsighted. 'The attack shows only the political and military blindness and cramped horizon and short-sightedness' of American attackers, said Assad in a reaction by state news agency SANA.
Syria said Friday to have shot down an Israeli fighter plane near the city of Palmyra. According to the commander of the Syrian army had the Israeli army warplanes violated its airspace.
The Syrian government army Thursday held most of the eastern Syrian city of Palmyra again after Islamic State (IS) has withdrawn from the desert town. It reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The terrorist group Islamic State (IS) has in the ancient ruined city of Palmyra in eastern Syria destroyed several ancient buildings. According to Syrian state television would be inflated more a part of the Roman theater.
Members of the terrorist group Islamic State have in the ancient city of Palmyra, at least a dozen prisoners were executed in eastern Syria, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Thursday.
When fighting between fighters of the Islamic State and the Syrian army in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor are certainly 82 people in recent days slain. This was reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Monday.
The Syrian army has launched an offensive in the area of the historic desert town of Palmyra. Government troops recaptured, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights an area near a military airport near the city.
The extremists of the Islamic State (IS) may also have captured antiaircraft their capture last week of the Syrian oasis city of Palmyra.
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Russia and the United States on Sunday made a joint proposal for a safe retreat of rebels and civilians out by Syrian government forces besieged part of Aleppo.
Warring parties in Syria switch sides when it comes to the oasis city of Palmyra. After reports that IS fighters were driven out of the center, which she sat had conquered yet, now declared that the militants town Sunday have again completely in your hands.
Heavy air attacks by the Russian army have Islamic State driven to the edge of the Syrian city of Palmyra. Which has declared the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Sunday.
Nine months after they were chased his fighters from the Islamic State group back in the Syrian oasis city of Palmyra, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, according to the BBC. They received Saturday the northwest of the city-owned and provided in the center started with Syrian government forces.
Warriors Islamic State have won several major gas fields in Syria. The jihadists meanwhile pulled up to a few kilometers from the historic desert city of Palmyra in the middle of the country. That says Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
With a large airstrike, the coalition against IS fighting the oil trade of the extremists delivered a sharp blow. The coalition led by the USA reported Friday that 168 tanks were destroyed, the highest number so far.
The extremists of the Islamic State (IS) on Thursday in the middle of Syria undertook a major attack. They have claimed, inter alia, the Syrian state news agency SANA attempt with a large army did break through the lines of the government forces northwest of Palmyra, 200 kilometers northwest of Damascus. After fierce fighting with the Syrian soldiers were air support, the attackers saw pulling forced back.
The former jihadist Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi on Monday at the start of his trial before the International Criminal Court repented about the destruction of mausoleums and a mosque in 2012 in the Malian city of Timbuktu. The tombstones of medieval saints were on the UNESCO World Heritage list, but were considered idolatry by the extremists.
Jihadists of the movement Islamic State have in the Syrian city of Tadmur shot down a Russian military helicopter. The two Russian pilots are thereby killed, reported the Russian Defense Ministry.
In Syria Friday an army helicopter shot down by militants. The two Russian pilots are deceased, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. The incident occurred at Palmyra, a city in the middle of Syria. Islamic State (IS) published Saturday a video with images of the crashing helicopter.
In the Roman amphitheater in the historic Syrian city of Palmyra Thursday sounded music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Sergei Prokofiev. The famous conductor Valery Gergiev is leading the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg during an outdoor concert, six weeks after Syrian troops recaptured the city in Islamic State.
IS terror has made deals with the government of Assad in Syria about the conquest of the historical city of Palmyra. That would at least clear from documents that are owned by Sky News.
The triumphal arch in the Syrian city of Palmyra, which was destroyed in October (IS) by Islamic State, has received new life on the Trafalgar Square in London. The arch, made of marble from Egypt, according to the BBC using 3D technology recreated to scale.
Warriors Islamic State have after an attack on a cement plant east of Damascus possible 250 Syrian citizens, the number of which was present according to an administrator at the company, imprisoned and deported. Family members may have no contact with them since Tuesday.
IS fighters have before they withdrew from Palmyra buried thousands of mines. They were planning to let go off at the same time when the Syrian army invaded the city. Has told a Syrian officer in the city of antiquity.
Syrian government forces have in the sun on Islamic State (IS) Palmyra recaptured found a mass grave. The quarry contains seem forty, some missing a head, state news agency SANA reported. were many women and children lying in the mass grave on the northeastern outskirts of Palmyra.
