by WorldTribune Staff, July 24, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) on July 23 targeted a Shi’ite protest rally in Kabul, Afghanistan with twin bombings that killed at least 80 people and wounded more than 230. Thousands of Persian-speaking Hazara Shi’ites had been demonstrating against the route of a planned multi-million-dollar power line […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 24, 2016 U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are once again naively banking on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s good faith in the U.S.’s latest proposal for cooperation against jihadist groups in Syria, critics said. U.S. military and intelligence officials said Obama and Kerry are being set up […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 22, 2016 Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s scathing criticism of Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi signifies that the Turkish president has lost the ability of “sound judgment,” the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said. When reports circulated that top officials in Cairo had cheered the news of the coup attempt in Turkey, Erdogan bashed Sisi, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — What’s beginning to look like this year’s Republican presidential primaries in the USA has morphed into a political scramble for the UN Secretary General’s seat. With a dozen prospective candidates, the race for the new Secretary General has now overshadowed much of the work at […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 22, 2016 Misinformation on North Carolina’s HB2 law was a major factor in the NBA pulling the 2017 All-Star Game from the state, Gov. Pat McCrory said. The NBA on July 21 announced its decision to relocate the game. It had been scheduled for Feb. 19 in Charlotte. “The sports and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 22, 2016 The speaker of Iran’s parliament has asked the Islamic republic’s nuclear agency to prepare to re-open nuclear facilities that were closed as part of last year’s nuclear accord. Iranian state media reported that Ali Larijani last week requested the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization prepare a plan to re-open nuclear […]
Special to WorldTribune.com [Following is the transcript of Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016.] Friends, delegates and fellow Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. Who would have believed that when we started this journey on June 16, last year, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 21, 2016 Many in Egypt are not hiding the fact they would have liked to have seen the coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan succeed. Erdogan is a staunch supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, banned in Egypt, and a large number of Egyptians were looking for a similar result to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 21, 2016 The race will be tight in the key 2016 presidential battleground state of North Carolina, but Donald Trump will emerge the winner, GOP Rep. Mark Meadows said. “I do think they will want to make America great again,” Meadows said of North Carolina voters in an exclusive interview with […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 21, 2016 The United States and its allies should target and destroy Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) technology on all fronts and send the terror group “back to the eighth century,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said. “I don’t know how often you have to see 15 women burned alive, […]
