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He’s believed to have favoured a brand new election, and Turkey’s fundamental opposition chief has accused the president of obstructing the coalition-building efforts, a cost Erdogan denies.

The US has asked Australia to support air strikes and carry out intelligence surveillance, reconnaissance and air refuelling in Syria’s border areas.

But unlike chorine, which has a half-life of a few minutes, mustard gas is a persistent agent, Hamish de Bretton Gordon, a chemical and biological weapons expert told The Daily Star, meaning that it can remain in the buildings and in the ground for months or even years.

It said regime forces kept up airstrikes against ISIS to stave off the militants, as the extremist group stepped up offensives against both government forces and other insurgents in northern Syria.

Islamic State (IS) militants destroyed Palmyra’s 2,000-year-old Baalshamin temple on Sunday, triggering concern for the fate of one of the world’s richest archaeological sites.

The family of Khaled Asaad are said to have been told that the 82-year-old scholar who worked for more than 50 years as head of antiquities in Palmyra was executed by ISIS yesterday.

The United States and Turkey will launch a “comprehensive” air campaign to flush Daesh fighters from a designated safe zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey, Reuters reported.

“Based on previous information, we found these reports plausible”, the official told AFP, referring to a Wall Street Journal story citing US and German sources that said the extremist group had used the banned chemical weapon.

Islamic State monsters have destroyed one of the world’s most revered ancient ruins the temple of Baalshamin, Syrian officials have said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict, reported on the same day that its sources said ISIS blew...

The temple has been around since the first century and was constructed to the dedication of Phoenician, the God of storms and fertilizing rains.

Islamic State militants have destroyed Palmyra’s ancient temple of Baalshamin, Syrian officials and activists said, according to BBC News.

It was the first time in two years that the council agreed on a political statement on Syria, which French Deputy Ambassador Alexis Lamek described as “historic”.

The Islamic State (IS) militants blew up an ancient temple in Syria’s millennia-old oasis city of Palmyra, a monitor group reported Sunday.

Islamic State militants on Sunday blew up the traditional temple of Baal Shamin in the UNESCO-listed Syrian metropolis of Palmyra, an official stated, the newest in a collection of cultural relics to be destroyed by the jihadist group.

Human remains at an open grave inside the destroyed Saint Eliane Monastery.