by WorldTribune Staff, February 8, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a Feb. 7 phone conversation, discussed joint action aimed at liberating the Islamic State (ISIS)-controlled Syrian cities of al-Bab and Raqqa. Turkish presidency sources said that CIA Director Mike Pompeo would visit Turkey on Feb. 9 to discuss […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said he is grateful to U.S. President Donald Trump for showing “the real face of America.” Khamenei’s website quoted him as making the comments in a February 7 meeting with military commanders in Tehran. “What we have said for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The Syrian government has executed as many as 13,000 people, many of them civilian opposition supporters, in mass hangings at a military jail near Damascus, Amnesty International says. In a new report issued on February 7, the London-based group documented executions between September 2011 and December […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 Liberal Democrats have been in lock-step opposing President Donald Trump, so Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s statement that the president was “right” to take a hard line on Iran was jarring. In an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked the California Democrat if “President Trump is right to say […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 South Korea and Japan have been reluctant to take in refugees from Syria. The United States admitted more than 10,000 Syrian refugees on former President Barack Obama’s watch. Since 1994, 1,144 Syrians have requested asylum in South Korea, but refugee status has been granted to only three, government figures […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 Giving Iran much of what it wanted in the nuclear deal only “emboldened” the Islamic Republic to further “disrespect” the United States, President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired on Feb. 5. “I think it was the worst deal I’ve ever seen negotiated,” Trump told Fox News’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 A surface-to-surface missile launched by Iran-backed Houthi rebels hit a Saudi military camp near Riyadh on Feb. 5, according to regional news reports. The Saudi Ministry of Defense has not commented on the incident, but a number of local citizens reported on Twitter that the missile hit a military camp in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2017 Middle East countries, which deal with the threat of terrorism on a 24/7 basis, are widely backing U.S. President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations. Mideast governments who are dealing with the consequences of former President Barack Obama’s “fecklessness … want the United States […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2017 Iran’s “misconduct and misbehavior” must be addressed, U.S. Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis said on Feb. 4, a day after the U.S. slapped a new set of sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Mattis, who described Iran as “the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world,” was […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2017 Thousands of travelers from the Mideast are rushing to enter the United States after a Seattle judge lifted President Donald Trump’s travel ban for citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The Trump administration has suspended the ban’s enforcement in compliance with the Feb. 3 order […]
