(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Kurdish forces have arrested 15 people in eastern Raqqa province in a campaign tracking young people who escaped the military conscription, local activists said Wednesday.   The Syrian Democratic Forces campaign have arrested the young men at a checkpoint...

The novel coronavirus has claimed 1,271 more lives in Brazil and 650 in Mexico over the past 24 hours, according to health authorities Wednesday. In Brazil, the world’s second worst-hit country after the US, the death toll climbed to 116,580, while the number of cases surged to nearly...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold closed-door meetings Wednesday with Bahrain's royal family and top officials in the United Arab Emirates amid the Trump administration's push for Arab nations to recognize Israel. Pompeo already traveled to Israel and Sudan on this trip through...

 In three decades of failed peace efforts, the Palestinians have never faced a more hostile US administration, a more self-assured Israel or a more ambivalent international community. But even as their hopes for statehood have never seemed so dim, there's no indication their aging...