UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the Syrian army’s recapture of Palmyra from Daesh, expressing hope that the government will rebuild and protect the UNESCO-listed city.
Addressing a press conference in the Jordanian capital, Amman, Ban said, “The extremist terrorists, they have been not only killing brutally people, they have been destroying human civilizations.”
In another development, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered felicitations to Assad on the liberation of Palmyra.