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Tariq Panja tariqpanja Global soccer organization FIFA, seeking to repair its reputation after a corruption scandal brought the governing body…
The first signs of what would become an abhorrent new twist in the Syrian civil war—the use of chemical weapons—started…
President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Indian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi signing the historic Simla agreement in July 1971…
To write anything about Saudi Arabia is to invite controversy. The country has been both an incubator and a victim…
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had a comfortable meeting with the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the side lines of the…
There were of course people who might have used some nasty words about Shimon Peres, who passed away at the…
AT-802. Photo via the author Evidence piling up that Cairo and Abu Dhabi have deployed forces by ARNAUD DELALANDE On Sept.…
In this tribute published by the Jerusalem Post, a veteran U.S. envoy remembers the late Israeli leader’s visionary but pragmatic…
With a few exceptions, the candidates focused more on debating the past than offering ideas and prescriptions for today’s Middle…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused world soccer body FIFA of allowing FIFA-sanctioned matches to be played on occupied…
The campaign of Bernie Sanders to become the Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, was…
On September 9, 2016, U.S. Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-Nebraska) introduced a bipartisan resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives calling…
By ANDREW HIGGINS PARIS — The golden main dome of a new Russian Orthodox cathedralnow under construction on the banks…
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI delivers an address in Regensburg, Germany, in 2006, which caused a firestorm of protest across the…
Editor’s Note: This is adapted from the author’s recently published article, “Israel’s Second War Doctrine,” [pdf] from the Institute for…
An Egyptian businessman with close ties to general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has submitted a bid for the broadcasting rights of…
Don’t believe news reports of huge arms deals News reports claim that the Islamic Republic of Iran is in the process…
Paper prepared for the Economic Roundtable on “The Impact of Syrian Refugees on the Lebanese Economy,” Organized by the Maronite…
There used to be a public health phenomena called Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). The idea was that dirty ducts…
Pakistan’s Role in the Syria Conflict By Samuel Ramani On May 2, 2016, the Iranian government passed a law allowing…
Kuwaiti authorities seize offices of the National Olympic Committee and the National Football Association due to alleged financial irregularities. By…
KUWAIT, Aug 29 (KUNA) — His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has placed his personal weight as…
Critics see Saudi Arabia’s export of a rigid strain of Islam as contributing to terrorism, but the kingdom’s influence depends greatly on…
Among the victims of the war in Syria during the past five years has been the moral compass of western…
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…