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The army and Iranian-backed militia advanced inside Palmyra on Thursday as Daish withdrew completely, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said.

Syrian government forces recaptured the famed ancient city of Palmyra on Sunday in a major symbolic victory over the Islamic State group, a military source said.

Islamic State militants have blown up the Arch of Triumph, a major monument in the 2,000-year-old Roman city of Palmyra, Syria's antiquities chief said.

UNESCO lists 10 world heritage sites in Syria and Iraq. Of those 10, it says nine are currently in danger and not just because of Islamic State vandalism.

Islamic State militants seized control of the majority of the Syrian city of Palmyra on Wednesday, marking the second significant strategic gain for the group in the past week.

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