The FSB’s Second Service is known for its program of poisoning and assassinating Russian opposition figures. But, as The Insider has discovered, the very same unit that poisoned Navalny and monitored Boris Nemtsov has been responsible for the state-run doping program in Russian sports for the past several years. The …

Group was preparing systematic terrorist and sabotage activities within UAE The UAE State Security Department on Monday said it had dismantled a terrorist organisation operating inside the Emirates. The department sanctioned the arrests of the group’s members over suspected involvement in activities aimed at undermining national unity and carrying out …

They won’t say it in public. But in private conversations since the February 28 outbreak of war in the region, Gulf officials tell me that they have absorbed Iranian retaliation for hosting a US-Gulf security architecture they were never permitted to name. The current terms are no longer acceptable. They …