In Syria, Kidnappings of Women and Girls Fuel a Minority Group’s Fears

In Syria, Kidnappings of Women and Girls Fuel a Minority Group’s Fears

A Times investigation found that abductions of women and girls from Syria’s Alawite minority were more common, and more brutal, than the government has acknowledged.

Russian archeologists transfer artifacts found in Palmyra to Syria — archeologist

The goal was to determine whether the arch of Palmyra could be rebuilt on the existing foundation, whether it required reinforcement, or needed to be reconstructed entirely, and it turned out that the foundation was solid enough to support the reconstruction of the arch