On Monday, CNN reporter Clarissa Ward explained the shadowy operations of the Wagner Group, a paramilitary organization that experts believe is under the control of the Kremlin — and which is used to exert Russia’s might and disrupt politics around the world. “I think everybody...

 Rebels shot down a Syrian warplane in the opposition stronghold of Idlib province Wednesday as Russian-backed regime forces closed in on a strategically important town, rebel sources and an activist group said. A pilot who ejected from the plane was captured, according to the...

A government military base in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia was struck by car bombs and gunfire Wednesday, residents said, and the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the attack. The mid-morning attack occurred in Awdhigle, an agricultural district along the...

A Syrian activist group and state-controlled media say that regime forces have captured two northwestern villages, inching closer to a major rebel-held town. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-linked activist group, says Syrian troops captured the...