In boasting about his tenure in the White House, President Barack Obama often cites numbers like these: 15 million new jobs, a 4.9 percent unemployment rate and 74 months of consecutive job growth. There's one number you will almost never hear: More than 1,030 seats. That's the number of...

(Sky News)- An explosion has rocked eastern Aleppo as people were returning to their homes after the regime assumed full control of the city earlier this week. New airstrikes on a rebel-held town near Aleppo killed at least five people, state TV reported. It comes as new video...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Saturday have intensified its aerial and ground shelling on Wadi Barada valley northwest of the capital, causing cut in water supply after targeting al-Fija spring, activists said. The heavy aerial bombing on an array of villages in a mountainous...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Saturday that the military's economic activity accounted for no more than two percent of the country's output, dismissing suggestions that the military could control as much as half of the economy. Speaking at an event celebrating the expansion...