Mario Gotze's 113th-minute volley fired Germany to World Cup glory with a 1-0 win over Argentina at the Maracana. The tournament's outstanding team failed to repeat the fluency and brilliance of their 7-1 semi-final romp against Brazil...

Jordan, where the US Central Intelligence Agency has been covertly training Syrian rebels for more than a year, is reluctant to host an expanded rebel instruction programme, US officials say. Jordan's reticence, confirmed by four US officials, is a potentially serious setback...

    Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl-Istanbul)- It has been reported to Zaman Alwasl that Nasr al-Hariri, the General Secretary for the Coalition has surprisingly and suddenly called for the General Authority’s meeting at its...

(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Dani Murad) Syrian regime militias, more commonly known as ‘Shabiha’ portray the structure and goals of the Assad regime to accumulate personal wealth and ensure its own survival at all costs,...