by WorldTribune Staff, April 30, 2017 The Taliban relies heavily on the illicit opium trade from which it generates as much as 60 percent of its funding, according to the U.S. military. But politically correct polices at the Pentagon have prevented U.S. military actions to eliminate the lucrative and illicit opium crops at the source. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 30, 2017 Egypt’s religious leaders have an “obligation” to condemn “violence in the name of religion,” Pope Francis said on April 28. “Let us say once more a firm and clear ‘No!’ to every form of violence, vengeance, and hatred carried out in the name of God,” the pope said during his […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 28, 2017 A Saudi Man in his 20s has been sentenced to death on apostasy charges after he uploaded videos to social media renouncing Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. Ahmad al-Shamri lost two appeals after his 2014 arrest for blasphemy, according to the Independent. “I wish there could be live streaming […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 27, 2017 Israel’s intelligence minister hinted that Israeli warplanes struck a suspected Hizbullah weapons depot near Damascus International Airport on April 27. The strike “corresponds completely with Israel’s policy to act to prevent Iran’s smuggling of advanced weapons via Syria to Hizbullah,” Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz told Israeli radio. “The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 27, 2017 Samples from the scene of a chemical attack in northern Syria prove that the Assad regime carried out the attack, France’s foreign minister said. The samples, obtained by French intelligence, show that President Bashar Assad’s forces “undoubtedly” used sarin gas in the April 4 attack in the town of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 27, 2017 The Obama administration in its efforts to secure a nuclear deal with Iran and a foreign policy legacy for President Barack Obama let several Iranian fugitives off the hook in a move that “appears to have done serious damage to our national security,” House Republicans said. In a letter […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 26, 2017 A group of rampaging wild boars attacked Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists who were planning to ambush anti-ISIS Iraqi tribesmen. The boars killed three terrorists, according to reports. The incident occurred on April 23 near farmland in the al-Rashad region, an ISIS-controlled pocket 53 kilometers (33 miles) south of Kirkuk, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 25, 2017 As U.S.-led coalition forces close in on Raqqa, Islamic State (ISIS) has moved its de facto Syrian capital 90 miles to the southeast, a report said. The terror organization moved its bureaucracy to Deir ez-Zour, U.S. defense officials told Fox News. The officials said U.S. military drones watched hundreds […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 25, 2017 Feminists in 2017 aren’t interested in equality with men – they want “protection from them,” feminist scholar Christina Hoff Sommers said. In an interview with the American Enterprise Institute resident scholar posted on April 23, the Washington Free Beacon said Sommers “is concerned that classical equity feminism has been eclipsed […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 24, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump is deliberating whether to extend the Iran nuclear deal, which requires certification of Iran’s compliance every 90 days. The president should not re-certify the deal, Sarah Stern, founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, wrote for American Thinker on April 22. “Firstly, […]
