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Syrian soldiers play soccer in the streets of Palmyra, after government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove Islamic State from the ancient city. Jillian Kitchener reports.
Syrian government forces drove Islamic State out of Palmyra Sunday, inflicting what the army called a mortal blow to the militants who seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples. Nathan Frandino reports.
Russian airstrikes target a rebel base for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria's northwest, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reporting casualties at the site which is located near a summer recreation area. IMAGES
Images show people standing amidst the rubble of a house that was destroyed by a Russian air strike that killed seven people, four of them children, in the Jisr al-Shughur countryside of northern Syria. Russia, which did not comment immediately on the raid, is a main backer of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. With Russian and Iranian support, Damascus clawed back much of the ground lost in the early stages of Syria's conflict, which erupted in 2011 when the government brutally repressed pro-democracy protests. The last pocket of armed opposition to the regime includes large swathes of Idlib province and parts of the neighbouring Aleppo, Hama and Latakia provinces. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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