Photos posted online by Islamic State on Tuesday claim to show the destruction of a 2,000-year-old temple at the Syrian world heritage site of Palmyra earlier this week. In the series of images, several men carry barrels into the Roman-era Baal Shamin temple, lining the base and placing the containers connected by blue wire on […]
French President Francois Hollande on Monday will bestow France’s highest decoration, the Legion of Honor, on three Americans and a Briton who subdued a heavily armed gunman aboard a high-speed train on Friday. The ceremony set for Monday morning in Paris also will include a French citizen who first discovered the gunman near a restroom […]
U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in eastern Syria Saturday and Sunday have killed at least 23 Islamic State militants and wounded others. In a statement issued early Sunday, the coalition said the airstrikes targeted structures and transit routes used by the IS group in and around Raqqa. Coalition spokesman Lt. Col. Thomas Gilleran says the airstrikes, which […]
Five days after ISIL forces took the Iraqi city of Ramadi, which the U.S, military called nothing more than the ebb and flow of a “complex, bloody fight,” and said ISIL was on the defensive, ISIL forces have now wrested control of the major city of Palmyra from Syrian forces. This most recent victory by the ISIL […]