Sources: BBC
The Syrian Army and its allies recapture the ancient city of Palmyra from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. 2017-03-2
ISIL recaptures the Syrian city of Palmyra despite heavy Russian airstrikes, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Palmyra Coordination Committee (PCC). 2016-12-11
The SOHR and Amaq announce that ISIL has captured an oil field north-west of Palmyra. 2016-12-10
The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reports a mass grave, containing the bodies of beheaded women and children, has been found in the former ISIL-controlled city of Palmyra, recently retaken by the Syrian government. 2016-04-2
The Syrian Army takes full control of Palmyra after heavy fighting with ISIL forces, according to a Syrian military source. 2016-03-27
Airstrikes by Syrian or Russian warplanes on ISIL's de facto capital Al-Raqqah in northern Syria, leaves at least 39 people dead, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Airstrikes on the city of Palmyra and nearby villages are said to have killed at least 18 ISIL militants, as the Syrian Army advance on the city. 2016-03-19
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports the Islamic State, on Sunday, executed three detainees in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra by strapping them to pillars and blowing them up with the antiquities. ISIL has yet to tell locals the identities of the three individuals or say why they had been killed. 2015-10-27
Russian warplanes bomb Islamic State positions in the central Syrian city of Palmyra and in the northern Aleppo province, releasing videos that show them destroying 20 vehicles and 3 weapons depots. 2015-10-6
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant destroys a 2,000-year-old Roman-era Triumphal arch in Palmyra according to Syria's antiquities chief. 2015-10-4
At least 26 people are killed following Syrian Arab Air Force air-raids on the Islamic State-held central Syrian city of Palmyra according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 2015-09-18