Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, on Wednesday described the president's Twitter attacks on the judiciary as "disheartening and demoralizing," Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal said. Gorsuch spokesman Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist hired by the White...

(Wall Street Journal)-American military airstrikes last week killed nearly a dozen al Qaeda militants in Syria, including a top-ranked operative, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. One strike Feb. 3 killed 10 al Qaeda militants gathered near Idlib, Syria, and a second on Feb. 4 killed Abu...

Belgium's terror monitoring centre has expressed concerns about the spread of Saudi- and Gulf-backed fundamentalist Islam in the country's mosques, according to an official report published in local media Wednesday. The OCAM national crisis centre said the austere Sunni doctrine of Wahhabism...

The Syrian Red Crescent said on its Twitter account four volunteers were wounded, one critically, by shellfire as they distributed aid in Aleppo Wednesday. The International Committee of the Red Cross said in a separate tweet three people were killed and seven injured, including Red...