The extremist cell that launched deadly attacks on Paris and Brussels received its orders from "very high" in ISIS command, Belgium's federal prosecutor said Wednesday. "We know that the orders came from the ISIS zone... We know that it went very high in the command," prosecutor Frederic Van...

Donald Trump's election as U.S. president on Wednesday aroused concern among Syrian rebels and a degree of optimism in Damascus, where his victory was seen as a better outcome than a Hillary Clinton win. Syrian rebels have long been fiercely critical of what they perceive as the Barack Obama...

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday NATO submarines had been tracking its battle group in the Mediterranean and that it had chased away a Dutch submarine which had been dangerously maneuvering nearby, the Interfax news agency reported. Moscow has assembled a sizable battle group...

An elite Yemeni force backed by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes killed 30 suspected Al-Qaeda fighters in the southeast of the country in a 24-hour operation that ended Wednesday, the army said. The force raided an Al-Qaeda hideout west of the port city of Mukalla Tuesday in a "very...