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...

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...

Back in May, when Donald's Trump's stunning U.S. presidential election victory seemed the remotest of possibilities, a senior European official took to Twitter before a G7 summit in Tokyo to warn of a "horror scenario". Imagine, mused Martin Selmayr, the head of European Commission President...

Iran's foreign minister called Wednesday on U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to stick to international agreements following his threats during the election campaign to tear up a nuclear deal with Tehran. "Every U.S. president has to understand the realities of today's world. The most...