May 6, 2016 Meet the Middle East

Syrian regime holds patriotic concert in retaken Palmyra

President Bashar al-Assad's regime was able to display its control over the world heritage site six weeks after the army, with Russian help, recaptured it from Islamic State fighters.The event marked the centenary of Martyrs' Day, when Syrian nationalists were executed in Damascus by the Ottoman occupiers in 1916.
Source: Albawaba
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