ISIS BLOWS UP TEMPLE AT SYRIAS PALMYRA RUINS

The entire ancient city of Palmyra is a Unesco World Heritage site... READ MORE›

PALMYRA'S BAALSHAMIN TEMPLE 'BLOWN UP BY IS'

Islamic State militants have blown up the ancient temple of Baalshamin at Palmyra, Syrian officials and activists say... READ MORE›

ISIS DESTROYS MORE ARTIFACTS IN SYRIA AND IRAQ

But Thursday was the first time that the Islamic State said it had destroyed Palmyra statues... READ MORE›

THREE SPANISH JOURNALISTS MISSING IN SYRIA, FEARED KIDNAPPED BY ISLAMIC STATE

Antonio Pampliega, JosA C Manuel LA?pez and A?ngel Sastre were last heard from on 12 July in Aleppo, says Spanish Federation of Journalists... READ MORE›

ISIS HELD US AID WORKER AS SEX SLAVE BEFORE DEATH

DOHUK Iraq Somewhere in territory controlled by the Islamic State Kayla Mueller an American aid worker was chained in a room with other female captives... READ MORE›

OFFERING SERVICES ISIS DIGS IN DEEPER IN SEIZED TERRITORIES

ERBIL Iraq In northern Syria the jihadists of the Islamic State have fixed power lines dug sewage systems and painted sidewalks... READ MORE›

MAP: THERE ARE 10 WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. NINE ARE IN DANGER.

Islamic State group jihadists seized Syria's Palmyra on Thursday, as UNESCO warned that the destruction of the ancient city would be an enormous loss to humanity... READ MORE›

EUROPE SHOULD BE 'ASHAMED' OF MIGRANT CRISIS

Libyan officials have recovered 105 bodies after a migrant boat sank on Thursday in the Mediterranean Sea... READ MORE›

UN TO DEPLOY PEACEKEEPERS TO PROTECT WORLD HERITAGE SITES

UN peacekeepers will protect world heritage sites from attacks by Islamist militants Unesco has said... READ MORE›

ISIL 'BEHEADS TOP ARCHAEOLOGIST IN PALMYRA'

Isil extremists behead antiquities scholar khaled al-asaad in ancient syrian city of palmyra a government official said... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATEDAMAGES TEMPLE OFBAAL IN PALMYRA

Fighting in the region continued Sunday, with Islamic State fighters clashing with other militants in southern Damascus, according to The Associated Press... READ MORE›

ISIS ARE HELL-BENT ON DESTROYING CENTURIES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE

The mining town's new neighbours who are half a world away... READ MORE›

FIRST U.S.-TRAINED SYRIA REBEL BELIEVED KILLED IN FIGHTING

Defending the U.S.-trained fighters could become a growing job for United States, which has been waging air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria... READ MORE›

GERMANY'S MERKEL SEES NEED TO COOPERATE WITH RUSSIA ON SYRIA

Syrian envoy Staffan de Mistura's plan to create a Syrian contact group... READ MORE›

ISIL THREATENS SLAUGHTER IN THE STREETS OF THE WEST

He said Mr Kassig was a selfless humanitarian worker who had gone to the region to help care for those fleeing the Syrian conflict... READ MORE›

HAVE US TACTICS ONLY HELPED TO MAKE ISLAMISTS MORE POWERFUL?

Isis, a year of the caliphate Have US tactics only helped to make Islamists more powerful?... READ MORE›

SYRIAN GIRLS 'SOLD' INTO FORCED MARRIAGES

Many of the young girls are sourced from refugee camps in Jordan that house more than 120 000 Syrian refugees... READ MORE›

GOOD RIDDANCE TO REYAAD KHAN AND RAHOUL AMIN

But as the crisis in Syria gets worse by the day, doing nothing is simply no longer an option for the Government... READ MORE›

ITALIAN CITY TO LIMIT 'ETHNIC EATERIES' AFTER EXPLOSION IN KEBAB SHOPS

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FORGET DAVOS. GOOGLE'S TOP SECRET 'CAMP' ON SICILY IS THE INVITE OF THE SEASON

According to La Repubblica, Google has sought to add some glitz to the event by inviting a host of celebrities... READ MORE›

ANCIENT MONUMENT IN SYRIAN CITY OF PALMYRA DAMAGED BY ISIS, EXPERT SAYS

ISIS militants have severely damaged a major Roman monument in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, an antiquities official said after visiting the site on Saturday... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE TAKES SLEDGEHAMMER TO 'IRREPLACEABLE' ANCIENT PALMYRA RUINS

Isil seized Palmyra's ruins from Syrian government control in May, prompting widespread fears that the group could destroy the a Unesco World Heritage site as an act of propaganda... READ MORE›

It was not clear whether the Arab commitment to take all necessary action against Islamic State and other militant groups would include direct military involvement in Iraq or Syria... READ MORE›

ASSAD 'CONFIDENT' OF RUSSIAN SUPPORT FOR SYRIA REGIME

The Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has expressed strong confidence that Russia will continue supporting his embattled regime... READ MORE›

RAF BOMBERS COULD STRIKE AGAINST ISIS IN SYRIA WITHIN WEEKS

RAF bombers could strike against ISIS in Syria within weeks to stem the flow of refugees into Europe... READ MORE›

THE TWO IMAGES THAT SHOW WHAT ISIS IS DOING TO THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE

Isis in Palmyra The two images that show what the so-called 'Islamic State' is doing to thousands of years of human knowledge... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE AND AL-QAEDA 'AGREE DEAL' IN SYRIA

Isil and Jabhat al-Nusra have battled bitterly for more than a year to dominate the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad... READ MORE›

OBAMA CONFIRMS DEATH OF US HOSTAGE PETER KASSIG AFTER ISIS RELEASES VIDEO

After being deployed in Iraq as a US army ranger, Kassig set up a medical charity to run aid to Syrian refugees in 2007... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE SAYS IT DESTROYED ARCHAEOLOGICAL PIECES FROM PALMYRA

BEIRUT AP Islamic State group militants have destroyed six archaeological pieces from the historic town of Palmyra that were confiscated from a smuggler the group said... READ MORE›

INTEL ANALYSTS SIFT SPY PLANE FEEDS FOR ISIS TARGETS

16, Air Force warplanes have conducted about two thirds of the 956 airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, Air Force figures show... READ MORE›