by WorldTribune Staff, October 16, 2016 Egypt launched airstrikes on Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) targets in Sinai on Oct. 15, one day after ISIL jihadists killed 12 Egyptian security personnel. “A targeted airstrike, which lasted for three hours, resulted in the destruction of the areas … that harbored terrorists, as well as […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By By Benjamin Lawler, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs How did Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón of Colombia so miscalculate popular Colombian voter sentiment regarding the peace process which he negotiated over years of effort with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)? The long-awaited Sept. 26, 2016, peace accord signing […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — In a quiet but contentious campaign, countries are competing for new openings on the UN’s Human Rights Council. Many of the contenders for membership on the Geneva-based body include the political Who’s Who of authoritarian regimes who are noteworthy abusers of the very human rights […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 14, 2016 Hillary Clinton warned that if Beijing didn’t “control” North Korea the U.S. would “ring China with missile defense.” The Chinese military was “the biggest supporters of a provocative North Korea. So China, come on. You either control them or we’re going to have to defend against them,” the former […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 14, 2016 Hurricane Matthew killed at least 42 Americans, 22 in North Carolina, and caused some $9 billion in damage. Apparently, that wasn’t devastating enough for the alarmists who believe climate change is the biggest security threat on the planet. As Matthew was hugging Florida’s coast, Marshall Shepherd, a professor in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 13, 2016 Iran likely used a portion of the Obama administration’s $1.7 billion cash payment to arm Houthi rebels in Yemen who recently fired missiles at a U.S. Navy vessel in the Red Sea, a report said. Members of Congress are investigating how American taxpayer funds are being used by Iran […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy It is difficult to say who will be elected by American people, but the world (except sterile Western Europe) has made its choice. And this choice, despite formal logic, is the “racist,” “sexist,” “imperialist”, “islamophobe” Donald Trump. In New York, the President of Egypt Abdul Fatah Sisi met with […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 13, 2016 The 100 FBI agents and six attorneys who investigated Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information agreed that the former secretary of state should have been prosecuted and, at the very least, should have had her security clearance pulled. “It was unanimous that we all wanted her security clearance yanked,” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is on a fast track, and that’s not just in terms of her hot-shot career. She’s up against a tight deadline. She’s got until Jan. 20 to persuade the U.N. Security Council to strengthen what she says is already the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi should “know his place” and added that a Turkish Army contingent in Iraq will not take orders from Baghdad. Erdogan told a group of Islamic leaders in Istanbul on Oct. 11 that Iraq had requested […]
