The Netherlands is preparing a case against Syria at the UN's highest court, seeking to hold the government of President Bashar al-Assad accountable for human rights violations, including torture and the use of chemical weapons, the Dutch foreign minister told parliament Friday. Syria has...

President Donald Trump appeared to confirm on Tuesday — contradicting his own previous remarks — that he had wanted to assassinate Syrian strongman Bashar Assad in 2017, but that his then-Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis opposed the operation. "I would have rather taken him out....

The Sahel region of Africa is a ticking "time bomb" of terrorism and organized crime, a Moroccan police chief told AFP Friday, a day after a suspected Daesh group-affiliated cell was busted. "It was a dangerous cell primed to go into action at any moment," Abdelhak Khiame, head of the...

A Lebanese judge leading the probe into Beirut's catastrophic port blast has summoned an outgoing minister and two security agency heads to testify, a judicial source said Tuesday. Judge Fadi Sawan is to hear caretaker transport and public works minister Michel Najjar and State Security...