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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…
The leader of the Shi’ite sector in Lebanon, Musa al-Sadr, mysteriously disappeared in Libya in the 1970s. A new book…
When I first visited Saudi Arabia in early 1994, I was amused to see that its government was busily promoting…
KUWAIT, Jan 21 (KUNA) — The Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC) has failed to fulfil its “assigned role” to forestall a…
The immediate price of such actions may be the further alienation of an important component of Saudi Arabia: its Shiite…
France is trying to catch up on Prime Minister’s Valls blunder on a TV show last Saturday. PM Valls, apparently…
By Simon Cox BBC News The world tennis authorities have admitted they took no action to pursue 28 top-level players, including…
Said Seraj Mirdamadi has been imprisoned in Iran since May 2014 on charges of threatening national security and propagandizing against…
Some might say that the spirit of the modern age, at least in the developed West, is all about an…
Former foreign minister Jean Ping will officially announce his candidacy for the presidential election of Gabon. Sources said Mr. Ping…
Imam Moussa al-Sadr, an Iranian-born cleric, in the 1970s. Mr. Sadr, who lived in Lebanon and became an ardent…
By Ali AlAhmed Washington DC – Saudi King Salman Al-Saud plans to abdicate his throne and install his son Mohammed…
It would be a great loss- human, cultural, scientific, and religious- for Europe (France in particular) if it were to…
FIFA ethics investigators said on Tuesday they planned an appeal that could extend eight-year bans on world soccer body president…
By taking an overcautious approach in Syria, the president has highlighted America’s failure to have an open discussion about the…
Having a permanent military foothold in the Gulf will put Turkey in an elite group of powers, but more presence…
The prince’s latest foreign policy initiative is to confer with Islamabad, presumably seeking help with Iran, and potentially including military…
Saudi Arabia is using soccer and its influence in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to expand its campaign to isolate…
LONDON (AP) — The son of former IAAF president Lamine Diack and two Russian officials were banned from track and…
Although the latest Kurdish offensive runs the risk of spurring direct Turkish intervention, it could also help isolate Islamic State…
A tritium device, maybe … or maybe not Robert Beckhusen North Korea claimed to have detonated a thermonuclear —…
By Liam Morgan The Investigatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee has recommended suspended secretary general Jérôme Valcke be banned for…
Unless the Obama administration demonstrates stronger resolve in responding to Iranian aggression, the Saudis and other Gulf monarchies will continue…
Saudi Arabia and Iran, highlighting the domestic drivers of mounting tension that threatens to deepen and complicate sectarian and multiple…
Written more than two thousand years ago, texts by ancient Greeks still have a major impact on the modern militaries…
U.S. officials concerned that Iran-Saudi conflict could undermine broader efforts in Middle East By JAY SOLOMON WASHINGTON—The sudden upheaval that shattered…