The United Nations says it has gotten reports that Syrian compels in Palmyra kept regular citizens from leaving, in front of its tumble to Islamic State aggressors.
The UN, however not introduce in Palmyra, refered to "believable sources".
It said it was "profoundly concerned" about the predicament of regular folks staying in Palmyra, in the midst of reports of rundown executions.
IS has likewise overwhelm the World Heritage site adjoining the present day city, raising worries about its future.
The activists have already decimated old destinations that originate before Islam.
UN social association Unesco says its devastation would be "a huge misfortune to mankind", however no harm has been accounted for there yet.
IS has likewise taken control of a military airbase and an infamous jail close to Palmyra.
Then, IS has grabbed the last outskirt going in the middle of Syria and Iraq after Syrian government powers withdrew, by Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The loss of the al-Tanf crossing in Homs region implies the Syrian government does not control any of the nation's outskirt posts with Iraq.
The fall of Palmyra comes days after IS caught the major Iraqi city of Ramadi.
The US has recognized the activists' increases are a "setback" for coalition strengths focusing on IS, however President Barack Obama demanded the US was not losing the war with the gathering.
White House representative Josh Earnest said the issue of IS was "not going to be unraveled overnight".
"Until we're ready to develop neighborhood constrains on the ground in Syria who can take the battle to Isil [IS] in their own nation," he said, "this is going to keep on being a troublesome test."
Investigation: Jim Muir, BBC News, Beirut
Numerous inquiries will now be asked in Damascus and Baghdad - or more all in Washington - about how the aggressors have figured out how to score significant advances in both Iraq and Syria this week in spite of every last one of endeavors to stop them.
IS should be on edge in Iraq, where the executive declared weeks back the starting of a crusade to drive the activists out of Anbar area. Presently he's lost its capital, Ramadi, days before they took Palmyra in Syria.
The Western coalition's bombarding battle has plainly hurt IS the place it could. At the same time, it could never adjust for ground powers which are not skilled, prepared or sufficiently persuaded to stand firm and hit back.
Just the Kurds in the north of both nations, most as of late in north-eastern Syria, have demonstrated ready to do that.
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