Syria's Palmyra: Ghost Town Bearing Scars of IS Destruction

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World http://ift.tt/1N3eNQN
via IFTTT Explosions rocked the ancient town of Palmyra on Friday and on the horizon, black smoke wafted behind its majestic Roman ruins, as Syrian army experts carefully detonated hundreds of mines they say were planted by Islamic State militants before they fled the town.