Iranian President Hassan Rouhani suffered in the run-up to crucial elections in early 2016 what amounted to at least a…
Year: 2015
Two weeks ago, former IAAF president Lamine Diack confessed to a French judge that he had sought 1.5 million Euros…
By Liam Morgan FIFA Presidential candidate Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein has called for the immediate publication of lawyer Michael…
We are still waiting for the IOC President Thomas Bach to strip Mr. Hickey from his special position as a…
Effort to limit violence and get president to relinquish power failed By NOUR MALAS and CAROL E. LEE The Obama administration…
Working alongside Russian forces will likely enhance the group’s ongoing shift toward a more offensive-minded strategy, with significant implications for…
Photo caption: IOC President Thomas Bach talking to Russia’s president Putin and Azerbaijan’s ruling couple Mehriban and Ilham Aliyev at the…
John Kerry, the sixty-eighth Secretary of State of the United States, was born to a temperament of wintry rectitude. He…
By SAM BORDEN Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, two of the most powerful figures in global soccer, were barred from…
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Four years after the United States Treasury and Justice Departments forced the closure…
By Harry Sherlock The former Arsenal goalkeeper could only stand and watch as he was lobbed in the first-half,…
Notorious terrorist was reportedly deemed a ‘ticking bomb’ by Israel and the West; rejected by Hezbollah, he planned attacks as…
Luis Figo and Robert Pires scored for the International All-Star XI David Beckham, Alessandro Nesta and Roberto Carlos also featured …
India buys the Triumf, which can kill everything that’s not stealth within 155 miles India is set to buy five…
Foreign Affairs Although Algerians are lukewarm to the prospect of a managed succession, they are even less willing to…
Muslim Brotherhood review: statement by the Prime Minister First published: 17 December 2015 Statement by David Cameron on the findings of…
Qatar spent six times what England spent on its bid for the 2018 World Cup, and almost 12 times the…
A real national commonwealth demands an authentic national narrative that recognizes the multiplicity of cultural, religious, and social foundations, but…
As various forces converge against the main rebel supply line in northern Syria, Russia’s wooing of the Kurds could make…
By Hussain Al-Qatari | AP December 11 KUWAIT CITY — A Kuwaiti sheikh who is a major powerbroker in the Olympics and…
ARON LUND On November 14, the International Syria Support Group, a gathering of nations meeting in Vienna, decided to work…
By PRESS ASSOCIATION The International Olympic Committee has said it fears the criminal investigation into FIFA could overshadow the credibility…
On Sunday evening, December 6, President Barack Obama attempted to assure Americans that he is applying the right array of…
KUWAIT, Dec 10 (KUNA) — Public Authority for Sports (PAS) Deputy Director General Humoud Fulaiteh on Thursday laid responsibility on…
Hassan Khomeini has made himself unpopular wuith hardliners by suggesting his grandfather’s revolution was hijacked Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran…
Following the Prisoner’s Sixth Surgery Arash Bahmani The news announcement that Mehdi Karoubi – a leader in the protests against…
By Athoob A Alshuaibi KUWAIT: As preparations at Jaber Stadium continue in full swing ahead of its opening on Dec…
By EMILY B. HAGER and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON — The United Arab Emirates has secretly dispatched hundreds of Colombian mercenaries…
Carlo Ancelotti will manage Ronaldinho, Paul Scholes, Robert Pires and Carles Puyol when the Football Champions Tour hits Kuwait. Ronaldinho,…
‘Bare, Naked, Nude,’ a new exhibition recently opened at Istanbul’s Pera Museum, includes academic studies of 44 artists from different…
Nicholas Linn Egypt’s got plans for Libya — to eradicate the Islamists and set it under the firm, autocratic control…
With the growth of the Islamic State have come voices for the United States and Western countries to engage with…
Lifelong language study can change a person. It enriches one’s life, especially if it is a relatively difficult language requiring…
By REBECCA R. RUIZ, MATT APUZZO, SAM BORDEN and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM The investigation into corruption and bribery in…
Of Turkey’s near-dozen neighbors, there is just one that Ankara really fears: Russia. This is rooted in history stretching back…
4 Things We Learned From This Week in International Sports Corruption On the eve of FIFA’s executive committee meeting that…
By Jack Goldstone As world leaders gather in Paris this week to address climate change, they will labor under the…
The Vatican’s nuncio to Lebanon, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, center, visits a hospitalized victim of the Nov. 12 twin suicide bombings…
Dozens of nuclear weapons are just miles from where Ankara shot down jet Geoff Wilson Turkey’s downing of a Russian…
Eldad Beck Waleed al-Husseini sat in Palestinian jail after daring to criticize radicals – but he says he is also…
William Armstrong – william.armstrong@hdn.com.tr Turkey’s newly elected government has given signals that it may move to address the grievances of…
A protester in Istanbul holds a sign reading ‘Alevism is my right.’ William Armstrong – william.armstrong@hdn.com.tr ‘Writing Religion: The…
South Africa’s last white president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Frederik Willem de Klerk urges Israelis not to follow the…
By Duncan Mackay at the Fairmont Hotel in Monte Carlo Mexico have been warned by the Interntional Olympic Committee’s (IOC)…
Jamal Habbachich, who heads a council of 22 Molenbeek mosques, poses for a picture at Attadamoun Mosque in the neighbourhood…
Executive Summary This report deals with the present situation in the Ismaili majority town of Salamiyah([1]) four years on from…
PARIS | BY JOHN IRISH, ROBERT-JAN BARTUNEK AND ORHAN COSKUN There were multiple chances to stop the men who attacked…
NEW REPORT FROM TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL SHOWS LACK OF INFORMATION AND TRANSPARENCY IN FOOTBALL AND HIGHLIGHTS CORRUPTION RISKS Most of the…
New Delhi is reportedly set to host an alternative Rio 2016 Olympic qualifier for Asian shooters following the International Olympic…
“The Olympic Charter is the best invention that has been created to avoid the control of public resources and the…