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...

China has passed "an extraordinary and historic test" with its handling of the coronavirus, President Xi Jinping said Tuesday at a triumphant awards ceremony for medical professionals decorated with bugle calls and applause. The nation's propaganda machine has churned out praise for China's...