Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Members of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) are fleeing Syria for safer positions in Iraq, as rival Syrian Al Qaida forces also began moving their forces to avoid U.S. bombing attacks, according to U.S. officials and reports from the region. Additionally, post-strike […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Egypt has accused Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan of supporting terrorists and seeking to provoke mayhem in the Middle East after he questioned the legitimacy of Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi in a speech at the UN General Assembly. Ties between Ankara and Cairo have been strained since then army chief Sisi […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin There’s a big battle brewing in the Jefferson County, Colorado, school system. The manufactured controversy over a proposed curriculum review is generating national headlines. But the fight is not about what misguided students and biased reporters say it’s about. “Censorship” is a red herring. The real issue is union […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times U.S. military and intelligence officials are trying to confirm intelligence and social media reports that the leader of the Al Qaida offshoot in Syria known as the Khorasan Group was killed in Monday’s airstrikes. Widespread Twitter messages after the U.S.-led Tomahawk cruise missile attack on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com It’s hard to imagine that any school would have a problem with a book about a Christian family that helped Jews escape the Holocaust. But Springs Charter Schools in Temecula, Calif., not only had a problem with “The Hiding Place,” they also took issue with any other book that was written by […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin D.C. journalists called the latest Quinnipiac University poll results in Colorado’s tight gubernatorial race a “shocker.” But it’s a surprise only if you’ve been hopelessly trapped in a Beltway echo chamber. Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper is down 10 points against former GOP Rep. Bob Beauprez among all likely voters. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com In recent weeks, the media are filled with reports on the international preparations for a war against the “Islamic State” and an International Conference was even convened in Paris in an attempt to enlist the cooperation of as many nations as possible in waging it. … [One]country in the area that poses […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell Some pundits are saying that President Obama has been floundering in his response to the ISIS crisis because public opinion polls show most Americans don’t want another war. In all my 84 years, I cannot recall a time when most Americans wanted war. That is something we should be […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Dennis Prager President Obama declared in his recent address to the nation that “ISIL is not Islamic.” But how does he know? On what basis did the president of the United States declare the a group of Muslims that calls itself “Islamic State” “not Islamic”? Has he studied Islam and Islamic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon A Chinese telecommunications company linked to the People’s Liberation Army provided U.S.-origin equipment to Cuba in apparent violation of U.S. economic sanctions on the communist-ruled island. U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports said the equipment included U.S.-made modems, routers, and switches for telecommunications networks. The transfer took […]