Syrian regime bombs town hours after food aid was delivered to starving residents

Syrian regime bombs town hours after food aid was delivered to starving residents

by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2016 Syrian helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the town of Daraya on June 10 just hours after its starving residents began receiving food aid for the first time in nearly four years. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault accused the regime of President Bashar Assad of “extraordinary duplicity” as the airstrikes […]

Judge dismisses key gun charge against armed occupiers in Oregon standoff

Judge dismisses key gun charge against armed occupiers in Oregon standoff

by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2016 The defense of Ammon Bundy and seven co-defendants in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff won a key victory on June 10 when a U.S. District Judge dismissed a key gun charge in the case. Judge Anna J. Brown dismissed Count 3 of the federal indictment, declaring that the […]

ISIL, intel reports warned of new terror threats targeting Florida, U.S. homeland

ISIL, intel reports warned of new terror threats targeting Florida, U.S. homeland

by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) warned earlier this week it planned terror attacks in Florida and issued a list of names of Florida residents it intended to kill, according to a report. Shoebat.com reported on the threat on June 9. The report said ISIL released a “hit […]

Express check-in? DHS intel worker arrested for bringing loaded handgun to the office

Express check-in? DHS intel worker arrested for bringing loaded handgun to the office

by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2016 A 46 year-old man working for the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis was arrested on June 9 for carrying a loaded handgun to work, sources confirmed. As an employee working in an area with classified information, the man was not authorized to have a handgun […]

The real reason why the special U.S.-Israel relationship is changing forever: Debt

The real reason why the special U.S.-Israel relationship is changing forever: Debt

Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey Israel just celebrated its 68th birthday. Since President Harry Truman overrode the entire foreign policy community of his day, inside the government and outside, and recognized the new State of Israel, the United States has been Israel’s external sponsor of last resort. There is nothing unusual in this — […]

Turkey’s Erdogan flies home early after friction over Muhammad Ali funeral

Turkey’s Erdogan flies home early after friction over Muhammad Ali funeral

by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2016 A dust-up over his role at the funeral of boxing legend Muhammad Ali prompted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to leave the proceedings early and fly back to Turkey. Erdogan and other government representatives left for Turkey on Feb. 9 without participating in the full funeral ceremony in Louisville, […]

U.S. charges ISIL defector; Palestinian-American claims suicide bomb vow was a test

U.S. charges ISIL defector; Palestinian-American claims suicide bomb vow was a test

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. authorities on June 9 leveled terrorism charges against a man who joined the Islamic State (of Iraq and Levant, ISIL) extremist group for two months before surrendering to Kurdish authorities in Iraq in March. In an affidavit that details the former militant’s everyday life in […]

Libyan forces moving in on ISIL stronghold in Sirte

Libyan forces moving in on ISIL stronghold in Sirte

by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2016 Forces aligned with Libya’s unity government advanced on Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) stronghold at Sirte on June 9 but were stopped from entering the city center by the terror group’s snipers. Brigades of fighters from the western city of Misrata succeeded in driving ISIL back along […]

White House spokesman terms Clinton email probe a ‘criminal investigation’

White House spokesman terms Clinton email probe a ‘criminal investigation’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2016 On the same day President Barack Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton to succeed him, the White House for the first time referred to the probe into the former secretary of state’s emails as a “criminal investigation.” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest used the term at his June 9 briefing […]