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By Nick Butler at the Cidade da Policia in Rio de Janeiro International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Patrick Hickey is…
Remarks at 2016 Exeter Gulf Conference This book project on Saudi public diplomacy using primarily the kingdom’s financial muscle…
Pat Hickey, the powerful Irishman who heads the European Olympic Council, languishes in a top security Brazil prison in Rio…
John Delaney, Head of the Irish Football Association, had already fled when the Brazilian judges had ordered he be detained.Photo…
A woman is more powerful and precious than anybody else,” she added A woman from the eastern province of…
Assab airport. Google Earth image Satellite imagery underscores Paris’ role in the under-reported conflict by CHRIS BIGGERS Satellite imagery…
Patrick Joseph Hickey (71), president of the Olympic Council of Ireland since 1989, is in a maximum security jail in…
above: ‘First at Vicksburg.’ Illustration via the U.S. Army Center of Military History Is there an American way of war? The…
The Islamic State has long relied on several key factors in making its case for Muslim hearts and minds. For…
By Mehdi Khalaji and Farzin Nadimi Two Iran experts discuss the political and military implications of Tehran’s unprecedented decision to…
…the IOC would drag their feed and ignore clear reports of state-sponsored, systemic doping, until it would be so close…
Abu Otaiba, the nom du guerre of a self-taught imam and Islamic State (IS) recruiter in Jordan, uses soccer…
Tehran violates its own constitution to admit Russian forces On Aug. 15, 2016, six graceful Tupolev Tu-22M-3 bombers from the…
A senior international Olympic official was taken to a hospital Wednesday after police came to his hotel to arrest him as…
PAT HICKEY KNOWS MORE THAN MOST about Olympic corruption. He has seen it firsthand over the past quarter of a…
Nadav Pollak and Hanin Ghaddar How has Hezbollah avoided a catastrophic quagmire in Syria and even exploited its campaign…
As was recently reported, a new batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s State Department have been obtained by Judicial Watch. One…
The anniversary of the Rabaa massacre highlights the Muslim Brotherhood’s fatal miscalculations following the 2013 coup, and the growing internal…
As usual in such cases, the reaction of loyalist and Russian air force commanders to opposition success was to unleash…
Anti-Assad forces can relish a victory, but their stated aspiration to hold the entire city should be taken with a…
BY MARCUS WEISGERBER The U.S. State Department says Riyadh can buy 153 Abrams tanks, 20 of which will replace ones…
Kamal Salibi, one of the Arab world’s foremost contemporary historians, kicked up a storm when he concluded in a 1985…
When the IOC abstained from issuing a general ban on Russian athletes after the McLaren report revealing a state supported…
Hygiene was a disaster, patriotism was out of control — and doping involved animal testicles and black magic. DAVID…
ORAN, Algeria — Future writing project: a topography of paradise in the medieval Muslim imagination. But not only medieval, for…
Ten Points on the Russian Sports Doping Scandal 1. The only way to get clean, dope-free sport is for…
In 1968, Israel’s first prime minister gave a candid interview to an Israeli-British film crew producing a documentary about his…
Recently, a series of high-profile comments by Western politicians on aspects of Islam have come under public scrutiny. These comments…
Turkish coup attempt raises alarms about nuclear weapons deployed overseas LYDIA DENNETT After the recent military coup attempt in Turkey,…
The coup attempted in Turkey this past weekend against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mattered for Russia, and for Russian President Vladimir…
The head of Italian intelligence paid a secret visit to Syria earlier this month, a week after his Syrian counterpart…
The nuclear deal and the negotiations leading up to it have been a significant source of factional confrontation inside Iran…
Mohammed Simsim, the president of the Saudi Arabian Weightlifting Federation, embodies existential dilemmas involved in Saudi deputy crown prince…
Military coup attempt failed to control information by ROBERT BECKHUSEN A military coup attempt by what appears to be…
Guarantees Crucial Rights, but Gaps Remain (Beirut) – Kuwaiti legislators’ adoption on June 24, 2015, of a new law giving…
DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON — A year after President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, the worst predictions of what would happen…
HSBC laundered money for criminals and thugs. with HSBC whistleblower Everett Stern. His work helped reveal the web of corruption…
The Battle of Bint Jbeil in Southern Lebanon was a major event in the Second Lebanon War; eight IDF soldiers…
If the Islamic State (IS) was serious about attacking Euro 2016, its plans clearly never materialized. Leaked transcripts of the…
Shoot-downs are piling up During the night of June 26 and 27, 2016, insurgents from the Jaysh Al Islam — a Saudi-supported…
Why Airbus and Boeing may be chasing fool’s gold Richard Aboulafia Unless the Farnborough Airshow sees a cloudburst of unanticipated…
The U.S. government needs to be clearer about the distinctions between Islam, political Islamism, and violent Islamism, in part by…
The appointment of one of the IRGC’s youngest generals can be seen as a sign of the Guards’ growing primacy…
Just as one was thinking that FIFA takes the prize as the most scandal-ridden international sports federation, well.. that might…
Charles Carroll of Maryland was the lone Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, and is today seen as a…
Det Internationale Skytteforbund er om muligt endnu mere lukket end FIFA Her gik man og troede, at FIFA tager prisen…
It seems that not all 35 Olympic Federations are concerned with the IOC’s increasing demand for good governance in sports.…
Aging helicopters attack indiscriminately by TOM COOPER For three weeks starting in early June 2016, the Damascus suburb of…
BY PHILLIP CONNOR AND JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD The United Nations adopted a resolution in 2000 marking June 20 as World…