A group of Syrian and foreign tourists visited Palmyra on Tuesday, the first such trip since the ancient Syrian city was retaken from Islamists last year, media reported.
DAMASCUS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 11th December, 2018) A group of Syrian and foreign tourists visited Palmyra on Tuesday, the first such trip since the ancient Syrian city was retaken from Islamists last year, media reported.The tour of the UNESCO World Heritage site was clouded by the scale of damage that Islamic State (IS banned in Russia) terrorists did to the 2,000-year-old relics, according to Al Ekhbariya channel.
The first tourists to come here in years took photos of the surviving treasures and were given souvenirs, one of them told the Riyadh-based television channel.
The historic city was captured twice by IS, which considers its Roman-era temples and antiquities blasphemous. Palmyra was eventually liberated by Syrian government troops with support from Russian forces in March 2017.
