Five trucks organised by the ICRC, the United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent were to deliver baby milk and...

"Thank you for today's amazing humanitarian act -- the concert in a Palmyra liberated from terrorists," Putin said

  "The walls, the windows and the door are also still there, and that's enough for me to get my family ready...

 

  The town is 100 km (60 miles) west of Palmyra

  Civilians, most of whom fled before Syrian and allied forces began the offensive, cannot return until de-mining is complete.

  At the National Museum, the jihadists committed some of their worst atrocities against Palmyra's heritage.

  Russian de-mining units, using robots and sniffer dogs, have also arrived in Syria to start clearing the area

 

  "We will restore [Palmyra] anew so it will be a treasure of cultural heritage for the world," Bashar al-Assad...

 

  It follows a three-week campaign by the army and its allies on the ground, backed by intensive Russian air strikes, aimed...

  Islamic State militants had launched counter-attacks - including car bombings - against government forces advancing in the city.

  "After all the tragedy we have suffered in Syria for five years, and the 10 months in Palmyra after it fell...it...

  Both expressed hope for more progress toward ending the fighting.