Islamic State (ISIS) captured the ancient city of Palmyra on Sunday despite dozens of Russian air strikes to push back the militants a day after they briefly seized the city in eastern Syria, a war monitor and the militants said. In the government's first official admission that Palmyra had fallen once again to the militants, state media quoted the governor of the province of Homs, where the city is located, as saying the army had pulled out of the city. The collapse of the city's defences despite the heavy bombing and...
