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Cairo Telecommunications Building Hit With 2nd Fire in a Week

ByAndrés R. Martínez and Rania Khaled

A blaze on Thursday at one of Egypt’s main telecommunications hubs was extinguished, days after a larger fire there killed four people and disrupted internet, transport and banking services.

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Cairo Telecommunications Building Hit With 2nd Fire in a Week

ByAndrés R. Martínez and Rania Khaled

A blaze on Thursday at one of Egypt’s main telecommunications hubs was extinguished, days after a larger fire there killed four people and disrupted internet, transport and banking services.

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Wildfires Scar Syria Anew

ByEuan Ward

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the size of Washington, D.C.

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Wildfires Scar Syria Anew

ByEuan Ward

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the size of Washington, D.C.

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Wildfires Sweep Syria’s Coast as Drought Strains Fragile State

ByEuan Ward

Firefighting efforts have been hampered by the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war, as the country grapples with the worst drought in decades.