Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The United States should invest more in missile defense given repeated missile testing by Iran and North Korea, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has said. Representative Mac Thornberry’s comments on Feb. 6 came after the Trump administration last week imposed new sanctions on […]
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 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 The Open Society Foundations, founded by leftist billionaire George Soros, is bankrolling a number of organizations that have filed legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations. “Leftists have no regard for the security and well-being of the American people. To the contrary, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 Liberal Democrats have been in lock-step opposing President Donald Trump, so Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s statement that the president was “right” to take a hard line on Iran was jarring. In an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked the California Democrat if “President Trump is right to say […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 The leader of California’s State Senate has introduced legislation that would make California a “sanctuary state,” meaning local police officers statewide would be specifically instructed to ignore federal immigration laws. That leader, in testimony before the California Senate’s Public Safety Committee, admitted he has a huge personal stake in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 South Korea and Japan have been reluctant to take in refugees from Syria. The United States admitted more than 10,000 Syrian refugees on former President Barack Obama’s watch. Since 1994, 1,144 Syrians have requested asylum in South Korea, but refugee status has been granted to only three, government figures […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 Giving Iran much of what it wanted in the nuclear deal only “emboldened” the Islamic Republic to further “disrespect” the United States, President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired on Feb. 5. “I think it was the worst deal I’ve ever seen negotiated,” Trump told Fox News’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 President Donald Trump should delay the appeal of a Seattle judge’s rejection of his travel ban executive order until the vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court is filled, a legal expert said. In the meantime, the Trump administration should follow Germany’s lead and use GPS ankle monitors to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 A France enslaved to the European Union risks losing its identity to globalism and Islamic fundamentalism, National Front party candidate Marine Le Pen said on Feb. 5 as she formally launched her presidential campaign. “There will be no other laws and values in France but French,” Le Pen said. […]
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 […]
