Isabel Coles

Ukraine is scrambling to repair electricity production crippled by a Russian bombing campaign, seeking parts abroad and at a front-line power plant.

Ukraine is scrambling to repair electricity production crippled by a Russian bombing campaign, seeking parts abroad and at a front-line power plant.

Rebel gains have left foreign powers scrambling to secure their interests while President Bashar al-Assad faces his most precarious position in more than a decade of civil war.

Foreign powers are scrambling to secure their interests as President Bashar al-Assad faces his most precarious position in more than a decade of civil war.

As disparate rebel forces moved across Syria they met with little resistance from disaffected regime forces, many among them badly paid and worn out from more than a decade of internal conflict. The speed of the rebels' advance has been enabled by what U.

The regime’s security forces and allies were apparently in retreat as President Bashar al-Assad’s whereabouts couldn’t be determined.

The Assad family dictatorship that ruled Syria for more than 50 years melts away, and outside powers maneuver for influence.

Once a self-styled modernizer, Syria’s president bought time with a harsh crackdown, but his government eventually succumbed to its many enemies.

Bashar al-Assad called for help from Russia, Iran and his own military in his last hours as Syria’s leader, learning he had run out of allies and loyalty.

The U.S., Turkey and Israel are all pursuing long-held ambitions in the country after Assad’s ouster weakened Iranian and Russian influence.