Hamas calls closing of leaders’ Facebook accounts an act of Israeli terrorism

Hamas calls closing of leaders’ Facebook accounts an act of Israeli terrorism

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2016 The shutting down of its senior leaders’ Facebook pages is an act of Israeli terrorism, Hamas charged. Hamas officials complained that, in the midst of the Gazan election season, Facebook closed the account of one of the terror group’s top leaders, Ismail Radwan, as well as the accounts of […]

Report: Obama administration cool with Iran plan to build two new nuclear plants

Report: Obama administration cool with Iran plan to build two new nuclear plants

by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2016 The Obama administration’s conclusion that Iran’s construction of two new nuclear power plants fall within the terms of last year’s nuclear agreement is “downright dangerous,” Sen. Ted Cruz charged. A State Department official told the Washington Free Beacon that Iran “is allowed to move forward with this venture under […]

Top secret: ISIL’s intelligence unit effectively exports terrorism worldwide

Top secret: ISIL’s intelligence unit effectively exports terrorism worldwide

Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct A secretive intelligence branch of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is exporting terrorism worldwide. The unit, known in Arabic as the Emni, is a combination of an internal police force and an external operations branch, according to French, Belgian, German and Austrian intelligence and interrogation documents. The documents […]

De-pressed? The media has embarrassed itself right out of contention in Campaign 2016

De-pressed? The media has embarrassed itself right out of contention in Campaign 2016

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Perhaps not since 1936 has there been such an abject failure through prejudicial media reporting of a presidential election. Then, the enormously popular weekly, The Literary Digest, predicted a strong victory for the Republican conservative candidate Kansas Gov. Alf Landon against Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR bidding for a […]

Women rip off, burn niqabs as jihadists reported ‘on the ropes’ in Manbij, Syria

Women rip off, burn niqabs as jihadists reported ‘on the ropes’ in Manbij, Syria

by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2016 Jubilant women were seen tearing off their niqabs and burning them in the streets of Manbij after the northern Syrian town was liberated from the brutal rule of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared Manbij fully liberated on Aug. 12, saying […]

Indonesia blocks ISIL plot to launch rocket attack on Singapore

Indonesia blocks ISIL plot to launch rocket attack on Singapore

by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2016 Six jihadists linked to Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) terror network in Northeast Asia were arrested after Indonesian authorities uncovered a planned rocket attack by the men on Singapore’s Marina Bay. Indonesian media reported that the six men, between the ages of 19 and 46, were arrested […]

Libyan forces said on verge of ‘victory’ over ISIL in Sirte

Libyan forces said on verge of ‘victory’ over ISIL in Sirte

by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2016 The battle to drive Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) out of their coastal stronghold at Sirte “is over,” the spokesman for Libya’s pro-government forces said. Meanwhile living conditions for the average Libyan is deteriorating. ISIL “has only control over one sector, residential district one in the heart […]

Germany turns blind eye as Christian migrants forced to hide Bibles amid death threats from Muslims

Germany turns blind eye as Christian migrants forced to hide Bibles amid death threats from Muslims

by WorldTribune Staff, August 12, 2016 Christian asylum seekers who are residing in Germany’s migrant housing facilities regularly receive death threats from Muslim refugees in the camps. “Bibles and crucifixes are kept hidden, children are shielded and all services must be held without the rest of the population knowing,” according to a report by Catholic […]

Kurdish forces launch Iraqi offensive against ISIL-held Mosul

Kurdish forces launch Iraqi offensive against ISIL-held Mosul

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Kurdish militia fighters in Iraq’s Kurdish region have launched an offensive as part of the effort to capture the city of Mosul from the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. The August 14 offensive began shortly after a campaign of intense artillery shelling and air strikes by […]

Journalist maps the seamless, anti-Trump media narrative managed by tech giants

Journalist maps the seamless, anti-Trump media narrative managed by tech giants

by WorldTribune Staff, August 12, 2016 It’s no surprise to conservatives that the “usual suspects” of left-leaning media outlets are doing everything they can to boost Hillary Clinton and demonize Donald Trump. In 2016, however, “the propaganda skewing … runs much deeper than just the media,” journalist and political pundit Liz Crokin wrote for Observer.com on Aug. […]