An effort to reduce growing strains on overcrowded prisons in Syria, some holding thousands of captured Islamic State fighters, is being met with cautious optimism in Washington, even though it involves letting hundreds of the terror group’s adherents walk free. The plan put into motion...

President Donald Trump called Tuesday on the US attorney general to investigate his "criminal" Democratic opponent Joe Biden, as he headed to a rally in the key state of Pennsylvania two weeks before election day. Polls show Trump down or in a tight contest in most of the swing states that...

 Tens of thousands of opposition supporters rallied on Sunday in the city of Karachi as part of a campaign to oust Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, who they accuse of being installed by the military in a rigged 2018 election. Nine major opposition parties formed a joint platform...

Two Kurdish YPG militants were wounded when an explosives-rigged motorcycle blew up in northeastern Qamishli city, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday. The rigged motorcycle exploded in a military site for the Kurdish Protection Units in the village of Himo. With the YPG...