by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2016 George Soros’s deep-pocketed posse is now gunning for the toughest sheriff in America. A group called Maricopa Strong, funded by the liberal hedge fund tycoon, is seeking to prevent Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio from winning a seventh consecutive term. Soros has been picking, and winning, several fights […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2016 The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) has followed the NCAA’s lead and pulled all of its neutral site championships from the state of North Carolina for 2016-17 over House Bill 2 (HB2). “This is political theater by the NCAA and ACC,” said U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, who represents North Carolina’a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2016 A new flotilla of “The Women’s Boat to Gaza” left from Barcelona, Spain on Sept. 14 with the intent of breaking the Israeli naval blockade on the Gaza strip. Two boats, the Amal and the Zaytouna, each carry 11 women, among them Swedish European Parliament Member Malin Bjork and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2016 The U.S. Embassy in Israel has issued a travel advisory for the Golan Heights after several mortar rounds fired from Syria landed in the northern Golan Heights in recent days. “We urge U.S. citizens to carefully consider and possibly defer travel to that area until the situation stabilizes,” the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The Pentagon said U.S. warplanes eliminated a “significant chemical threat” to Iraqi civilians by bombing a complex of buildings near Mosul that Islamic State militants had converted from pharmaceutical manufacturing to chemical weapons production. Air Force Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigian, head of the U.S. Air Force […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2016 The Obama administration touted its largest ever $38 billion military aid deal with Israel which was finalized without the input of Congress and is being criticized by Israeli defense contractors. Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, said Congress is not bound by the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and discounted […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2016 An offensive into Libya’s “oil crescent” by Gen. Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) has been condemned by the U.S. and its main European allies. “The governments of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States condemn this weekend’s attacks on Zueitina, Ras Lanuf, Es Sider […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2016 Former Secretary of State Colin Powell warned Hillary Clinton’s “mafia” about dragging him into “emailgate” and noted that the Democratic presidential candidate “keeps tripping into these character minefields,” newly leaked emails reveal. “Been having fun with emailgate,” Powell wrote to Beth Jones on March 9, 2015, days after news […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2016 More than 300,000 people, including over 86,000 civilians, have been killed since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011. In total, 301,781 people have been killed, according to numbers provided by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and quoted by AFP on Sept. 13, the first full day of an […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2016 The Obama administration has allowed 11,491 Syrian refugees to enter the United States this year. Of those, only 54 are Christians, despite the fact that Christian communities in Syria have been a primary target of reported violence. When the conflict began, an estimated 74 percent of Syrians were Sunni […]
