How Pakistan wound up on the same side as Iran in the Syria conflict.
Pakistan’s Role in the Syria Conflict By Samuel Ramani On May 2, 2016, the Iranian…
Monthly Archives: August, 2016
Kuwait dissolves Olympic Committee and National Football Association
Kuwaiti authorities seize offices of the National Olympic Committee and the National Football Association due…
Kuwait Emir gives impetus to sports scene to correct path
KUWAIT, Aug 29 (KUNA) — His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has…
Saudis and Extremism: ‘Both the Arsonists and the Firefighters’
Critics see Saudi Arabia’s export of a rigid strain of Islam as contributing to terrorism, but…
Where is the West’s moral compass?
Among the victims of the war in Syria during the past five years has been…
Hickey warned he could spend three months in Rio jail before investigation into Olympic tickets scam comes to court
By Nick Butler at the Cidade da Policia in Rio de Janeiro International Olympic Committee…
Creating Frankenstein: The Saudi Export of Wahhabism
Remarks at 2016 Exeter Gulf Conference This book project on Saudi public diplomacy using…
How Irish Olympic chief walked into Brazil trap over scalped tickets
Pat Hickey, the powerful Irishman who heads the European Olympic Council, languishes in a top…
Six more Irish Olympic officials ordered detained by Brazilian judge
John Delaney, Head of the Irish Football Association, had already fled when the Brazilian judges…
Woman in Turkey’s east celebrates divorce by decorating car, urges others to defend women’s rights
A woman is more powerful and precious than anybody else,” she added A woman…
France Is at War in Yemen, Photos Indicate
Assab airport. Google Earth image Satellite imagery underscores Paris’ role in the under-reported conflict …
Ireland’s Rio disgrace as Pat Hickey, head of Olympic Council, jailed (VIDEO)
Patrick Joseph Hickey (71), president of the Olympic Council of Ireland since 1989, is in…
America’s Greatest Military Victories— From Yorktown to Midway
above: ‘First at Vicksburg.’ Illustration via the U.S. Army Center of Military History Is there an…
ISIS Burnishes Orthodox Salafi Credentials With An Eye Towards The Future
The Islamic State has long relied on several key factors in making its case for…
Russia Uses an Iranian Air Base: Two Essays
By Mehdi Khalaji and Farzin Nadimi Two Iran experts discuss the political and military implications…
Should we not have expected that…
…the IOC would drag their feed and ignore clear reports of state-sponsored, systemic doping, until…
With mosques under surveillance, IS turns to soccer for recruitment
Abu Otaiba, the nom du guerre of a self-taught imam and Islamic State (IS)…
Russia Has Deployed Backfire Bombers to Iran
Tehran violates its own constitution to admit Russian forces On Aug. 15, 2016, six graceful…
Patrick Hickey, IOC executive, has bath interrupted by police arresting him over alleged illegal ticket sales plot
A senior international Olympic official was taken to a hospital Wednesday after police came to his…
The IOC’s Pat Hickey & The Mafia
PAT HICKEY KNOWS MORE THAN MOST about Olympic corruption. He has seen it firsthand over…
A Transformative Experience: Understanding Hezbollah’s Involvement in Syria
Nadav Pollak and Hanin Ghaddar How has Hezbollah avoided a catastrophic quagmire in Syria…
Bill, Hillary, Mr. Chagoury and Hezbollah
As was recently reported, a new batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s State Department have been…
Where did they go wrong?
The anniversary of the Rabaa massacre highlights the Muslim Brotherhood’s fatal miscalculations following the 2013…
The Race to Aleppo
As usual in such cases, the reaction of loyalist and Russian air force commanders to…
Aleppo: Is the Turnaround Sustainable for the Rebels?
Anti-Assad forces can relish a victory, but their stated aspiration to hold the entire city…
Saudi Losses in Yemen War Exposed by US Tank Deal
BY MARCUS WEISGERBER The U.S. State Department says Riyadh can buy 153 Abrams tanks, 20…
Is Saudi Arabia Zion?
Kamal Salibi, one of the Arab world’s foremost contemporary historians, kicked up a storm when…
The Olympic contempt for clean athletes
When the IOC abstained from issuing a general ban on Russian athletes after the McLaren…
Everything Bad About the Rio Olympics Was Much Worse in Ancient Greece
Hygiene was a disaster, patriotism was out of control — and doping involved animal testicles…
Paradise, the New Muslim Utopia
ORAN, Algeria — Future writing project: a topography of paradise in the medieval Muslim imagination.…
If You Love Sports, Switch Off the Rio Olympics
Ten Points on the Russian Sports Doping Scandal 1. The only way to get…