Within days of Crimea being swallowed up by Russia, the lights began flickering out. Officials in the peninsula accused Ukraine of halving electricity supplies in order to bully Crimea, which voted earlier this month in a referendum to secede and join Russia. "Cutting supplies...

Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was in a meeting with military top brass Wednesday at which he was expected to resign ahead of a likely presidential bid, state media reported. Interim president Adly Mansour later joined the meeting, after returning from an Arab League summit...

The Mulok checkpoint in Homs has long been the key to liberate besieged Homs because it separates Homs from its suburbs. This checkpoint, which is located north of Homs and about 5 km long, is one of regime’s biggest checkpoints which brought death and destruction to the...

  Activists northeast Syria reported that Bashar al-Assad’s forces have adopted new killing strategy by planting landmines near the main highway in Deir al-Zor. Six passengers killed and seven wounded days ago due to landmine explosion hit their bus on the...