(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...

Outside her home in northeast Syria, Sheikha Majid said her life had become an endless quest for fresh water, three weeks into the latest supply cut by Turkish forces. "I spend the whole time running after water trucks," the 43-year-old grandmother said, amid an ongoing outage -- one of...

Two rights groups are lodging a complaint to the UN over the "arbitrary" detention of a philanthropist Saudi prince, according to a document seen by AFP, adding to international pressure for his release. In January 2018, Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, now 37, was swept up along with his...

President Donald Trump will draw on all his showman's instincts at the Republican convention starting Monday to get Americans to look beyond his handling of the coronavirus crisis and return him to the White House for a second term. Facing anger over the pandemic and ensuing economic...