In late January, Mikhail Timofeev, a former aide to former Khabarovsk Krai Governor Sergei Furgal, was arrested in Georgia. Russian authorities accuse him of organizing contract killings on Furgal’s orders, and federal media outlets have named him the leader of an organized crime group that included members of his sports …

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 …

Fewer than a hundred days remain until the 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, and allies’ attention is turning to perhaps the most important question: What will make the gathering a success? In part, this question reflects a sense of opportunity. Last year at The Hague, US President Donald Trump …

L’équilibre entre les relations avec l’Arabie saoudite et l’Iran demeure un élément clé de la politique étrangère du Pakistan, le pays cherchant à la fois à renforcer ses partenariats stratégiques et à préserver son rôle de médiateur dans le contexte géopolitique tendu du Moyen-Orient. La position de l’Arabie saoudite et …

Il y a quelques semaines, un soldat américain stationné sur une base du Golfe a envoyé un message glaçant à une association de défense des droits des militaires. Il racontait le briefing de son commandant avant les premières frappes sur l’Iran. Le gradé, un homme bardé de décorations, n’a pas …

Britain’s military has stated hundreds of times that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked”, but declassified files tell a different story UK officials believed Nato expansion “would provoke [the] Russians” if a large group of European states joined the military organisation, declassified files from 1997 show. A March 1997 briefing …

Britain’s Ministry of Defence prepared for war with Russia after expanding Nato – 26 years before Moscow invaded Ukraine Formerly secret UK documents show that Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) knew that expanding Nato to admit new members could lead to war with Russia. UK Defence Intelligence prepared a Nato …

Undercover investigation reveals charity touted ‘awesome’ illegal settlements and claimed it could benefit from UK tax subsidies An Israeli organisation has been caught on camera offering to help British citizens move to an illegal settlement in the West Bank. Declassified can reveal how the group, Shivat Zion, told supporters it …