Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The Syrian government has executed as many as 13,000 people, many of them civilian opposition supporters, in mass hangings at a military jail near Damascus, Amnesty International says. In a new report issued on February 7, the London-based group documented executions between September 2011 and December […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has warned Iran “not to test the resolve” of the Donald Trump administration days after the U.S. imposed new sanctions on the Islamic republic over a ballistic-missile test. Pence made the warning in a Feb. 5 interview amid rising tensions between […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Liberals lie. That’s what they do. Yet, even by their standards, the Left has reached a new low. For days, protesters have been raging against President Trump’s executive order imposing a temporary travel ban on some Middle Eastern countries. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has called it a “Muslim ban” […]
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The rumble of artillery and the cracks of Kalashnikovs shatter the Winter chill. The refugees, the displaced and the injured have become part of the broken landscape which reflects the agony of previous battles. Yet the wider silence is broken by the unwavering voices who remind us that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2017 U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warned Friday that any North Korean use of nuclear weapons on the United States or its allies would be met with an “effective and overwhelming” response. Mattis issued the statement during an appearance with his South Korean counterpart, Defense Minister Han Min Koo. “North […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Something remarkable is taking place. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is becoming too extreme even for ultra-liberal Massachusetts. The left-wing Democrat is desperately trying to position herself as the leading anti-Trump voice in America. This may play well with some in the mainstream media and among hard-core Democratic activists, but it […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran has been “formally put on notice” for firing a medium-range ballistic missile. Trump also said in a Twitter post on Feb. 2 that Iranian leaders “should have been thankful for the terrible deal the U.S. made with them!,” referring to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Following is the Preface and the first of several excerpts from a book by WorldTribune columnist Donald Kirk and the Korean author Kim Ki-Sam. The book has generated much interest and controversy in both South Korea and the United States and has been published in Norway, the home of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com From Fairfax Free Citizen How glorious it is to have an American in the White House. The man not favored by the media maniacs, the Washingtonians, uninformed Americans, and the dumb masses in general is proving that he believes in America first, last, always. How successful the new President will be depends […]
How the U.S. Trump Administration deals with emerging Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran issues may have been affected by the policies and last-minute sanctions enacted by the outgoing administration. Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs As exiled Iranian strategist Dr Assad Homayoun notes: “If Iran switches its allegiances back to […]
