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Nadine Al-Budair made three-minute speech on Saudi Arabian news show Told fellow Muslims to admit that terrorists are not a…
Iranian missile tests highlight regional need for upgraded air-defense systems Tests by Iran last month of long-range ballistic missiles, reportedly…
Out-of-date Iranian banking practices and rank deception have made international banks leery of risking their reputations. On March 22, Supreme…
Leaked documents raise questions over role played by new Fifa president in TV rights deal while he worked for Uefa…
The Saudi-led coalition has waged a dynamic campaign, but all actions so far constitute a prelude to the tougher fighting…
Spain, or at least the Spain of Islamic conquest and primacy, Al-Andalus, looms large in the Islamist psyche, particularly so…
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” was my favorite novel, and its hero, Robert Jordan, my literary idol. Like him, Delmer…
By Nadav Pollak and Michael Knights The coalition has restricted Iranian resupply of the Houthis by air and sea,…
Part 1 of this three-part PolicyWatch covered the ground campaign (seehttp://washin.st/1LMXKHC); part 3 will cover the naval campaign. ****************************** The…
KUWAIT, March 23 (KUNA) — Kuwait’s sports laws are not the real reason that led the International Olympic Committee (IOC)…
Stephen Frears film The Program about Lance Armstrong’s doping to win the Tour de France has just opened to near…
Sulaimaniya, Iraq — As one could see from President Obama’s recentinterview in The Atlantic, he pretty much hates all the…
BY PATRICK TUCKER Keeping terrorists away from crowded spaces requires recognizing them before they get there, which is no easy…
In 2015, Alain Grignard said there were radicals the police didn’t know about David Axe Suicide bombers struck an airport…
Israeli Druze wave their community’s flags during a demonstration on June 14, 2015, in reaction to a shoot-out in northwest…
Forbes Putin’s regime is less stable than meets the eye, and Russia’s future remains uncertain. On March 14, as peace…
Turkish soccer pitches tell the story of the country’s multiple sharpening fault lines that are exploding into political violence on…
BERLIN, March 19 (Reuters) – A ban imposed on Kuwait by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) last year over what…
Reuters A Russian diplomat sought to reassure Israel on Tuesday that its security would not be harmed by the winding…
Putin’s war could be unraveling. BY DOMINIC TIERNEY Last September, Russia deployed dozens of jets to Syria to rescue…
by Ronen Bergman In May 2000, Israeli PM Barak made a brave decision that surprised the world to pull the IDF…
Liberal Saudi journalist Nadine Al-Budair, who lives in Dubai, penned an article in the Kuwaiti dailyAl-Rai in which she wondered…
By Liam Morgan Former South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) vice-president Rafael Esquivel has been extradited to the United States…
Beverly Hills Hilton in Los Angeles Carl Lewis has claimed Sebastian Coe should step aside temporarily as President of the…
As the election process and continued regional aggression make clear, the regime won’t change what it’s doing at home or…
Special to Bleacher Report A week ago, FIFA elected a new president. Declan Hill was there to witness it. Come…
Patrick Megahan Precision guided munitions (PGMs) encompass a growing range of bombs and missiles designed to destroy targets on land,…
Comment by Andreas Selliaas Gianni Infantino will enter his FIFA presidency with promises to be held and alliances to be…
I have put together a list of prospective winners and losers as a consequence of Gianni Infantino’s victory in the…
(WFI) The IOC has decided to take no action into the conduct of Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah in…
Sheik Ahmad Al-Sabah allegedly broke IOC code of ethics to lobby voters By CHARLES SALE FOR THE DAILY MAIL Sheik…
Jeremy Binnie, London – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly A still from a video released by Dira al-Watan (Nation Shield), shows…
In Zurich to witness the fight that one of the candidates describes as, “the most important in the history of…
Icon of the “21 New Martyrs of Libya” by Egyptian-American artist Tony Rezk The Islamic State (ISIS) and its former…
The exclusive account of how a small band of federal agents and an outsized corrupt official brought down the sports…
For such zones to succeed, they must be backed with militarily enforced no-fly zones and a persuasive response to Moscow’s…
The FIFA presidential favourite denies wrongdoing after Sky News reveals his home FA worked with a match fixer while he…
ORAN, Algeria — AFTER Tahrir came Cologne. After the square came sex. The Arab revolutions of 2011 aroused enthusiasm at…
By George Soroka In The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington memorably bemoaned that, whereas in the West there has historically…
Minister of Information, Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah with Lebanese youth and sports…
On January 25-27, 2016, several hundred Muslim religious leaders from throughout the world and fifty non-Muslim observers met in the…
With ample Russian and Iranian help, regime forces have cut the rebels’ main lifeline in the north, and they will…
While the Experts Assembly elected this month may be formally tasked with appointing the elderly Khamenei’s successor, the real decision…
By Andrew Roth MOSCOW — Four months after launching airstrikes in Syria, the Kremlin is confident that Moscow’s largest overseas…
Yaakov Lappin, Tel Aviv – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly The IDF believes that the Russian military presence in Syria is…
By MOHAMMED ALAA GHANEMFEB. 3, 2016 AS the fraught Syria peace talks inch forward in Geneva, the United States finds…
This investigation is a result of leads developed during the investigation into the Lebanese Canadian Bank. FEB 01 (WASHINGTON)…
Exclusive: As Fifa braces itself for the most crucial period in its 111-year history Dominik Schmid, who worked closely with…
Subtle changes in the way Qatar projects itself on the international stage symbolized by a recent government reshuffle, economic reform…