Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, is riding a populist wave with his declarations that he doesn’t need American military or commercial aid or agreements for U.S. forces to advise and assist the armed forces of the Philippines. He seems to want to reverse careful efforts on both […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 2, 2016 That the Democrats have become the party of coastal elites is now backed up by hard data from the Nov. 8 election. President-elect Donald Trump won 3,084 of the 3,141 counties in the United States. Hillary Clinton won just 52 coastal counties and five “county equivalent” cities stretching from […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2016 Hizbullah fighters in Syria are using American armored personnel carriers originally supplied by the U.S. to the Lebanese army, a senior Israeli military officer said. In an intelligence briefing to foreign reporters in Tel Aviv on Dec. 21, the senior officer showed a photograph of Iran-backed Hizbullah military vehicles, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2016 From the time of its founding by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) presented itself to potential jihadists as a more appealing version of Al Qaida. In a new report, the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, examined actual personnel […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2016 The assassin who gunned down Russia’s ambassador to Turkey had served on security details to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan several times prior to the Dec. 19 assassination of Andrei Karlov. Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, served on police details backing up Erdogan’s personal body guards eight times since the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A Russian court has found a former Moscow State University student guilty of trying to join the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and sentenced her to 4 1/2 years in prison. The Moscow Regional Military court convicted Aleksandra Ivanova — better known […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2016 Legislation to repeal the HB2 “bathroom bill” was voted down by the North Carolina Senate on Dec. 21. The Senate voted 32-16 against the repeal effort and then voted by the same margin to adjourn, ending the special session called by outgoing Gov. Pat McCrory two days after the Charlotte […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 21, 2016 Iran is complicit “in the most atrocious war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 21st century,” an intelligence report by an opposition group said of Iran’s actions in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo. “Mass executions, preventing the transfer of civilians, including women and children, [and] attacking civilians […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 21, 2016 The Obama administration “went behind the back” of the governor of Texas to find a city leader who favored accepting Syrian refugees after the governor said the state would no longer accept them, a report said. “The plan, evidently, was to continue sending Syrian refugees to the Lone Star […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 21, 2016 In a final effort to counter President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to expand energy extraction, President Barack Obama on Dec. 20 announced a permanent ban on offshore drilling in broad parts of the Arctic and Atlantic coasts. The ban relies on the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953, which […]
