With hours to go before Americans vote, Democrat Hillary Clinton has about a 90 percent chance of defeating Republican Donald Trump in the race for the White House, according to the final Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project. Her chances are roughly similar to last week's odds, and any...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime's military police and security forces have arrested 139 young men participated in a marathon organized in Latakia last Sunday who were escaping the conscription, sources said. A source within the military police and supportive to the opposition confirmed to...

A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance pushed closer to Raqqa in Syria while Iraqi forces seized a key town near Mosul as offensives progressed against the two ISIS strongholds. After announcing the launch of the long-awaited assault on Raqqa on Sunday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Journalists Without Borders announced Monday evening that it awarded its Press Freedom prize for 2016 to the colleague, journalist and activist Hadi Abdullah, “who did not hesitate to go to dangerous areas where no western journalist would go to film and investigate with...