by WorldTribune Staff, November 4, 2016 Iran has deployed a secret, 25,000-strong Shi’ite militia to Syria with the sole purpose of fighting anti-Assad regime Sunni rebels, an Israeli official said. Avi Dichter, chair of Israel’s foreign affairs and defense committee, told a visiting Swiss delegation on Nov. 3 that the Iranian-backed force was made mostly […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 4, 2016 Iraq’s prime minister warned Turkey of a possible confrontation after Turkish tanks, artillery and troops were deployed near the Iraqi border. “We do not want war with Turkey, and we do not want a confrontation with Turkey,” Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Iraqi state TV on Nov. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct When those in London are not fixated on the U.S. presidential election, they are immersed in their own set of controversial political issues. In late October a Geostrategy Direct editor was in the city to chair a multilateral cyber security conference and to participate in a series […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 3, 2016 Egypt, looking elsewhere to fill its energy needs amid a row with Saudi Arabia, signed an agreement with a Kuwaiti firm that will give Cairo a 20 percent stake in an Iraqi oil field. Kuwait Energy Plc signed an agreement with Egypt General Petroleum Corp. (EGPC) for a 20 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 2, 2016 While gleefully cheering the Arab Spring unrest of 2011 that brought down Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton completely ignored one of the ugliest scenes in Cairo, the brutal rape of CBS News journalist Lara Logan. “Hillary Clinton claims to have championed the cause of women […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 2, 2016 In his first act as Lebanon’s new president, Michael Aoun declared his loyalty to Iran and issued a chilling threat to Israel. In his inaugural speech on Oct. 31, Aoun said that “in the conflict with Israel, we will not spare any effort or resistance to liberate what remains […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 1, 2016 As a supporter of Muslim Brotherhood, Hillary Clinton was well aware that her push to remove Col. Moammar Gadhafi from power in Libya would lead to the rise of Islamists in the country, emails released by WikiLeaks show. Clinton also acknowledged that the Muslim Brotherhood wielded the “real power” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 1, 2016 More than 13,000 Syrian refugees have been resettled in the U.S. in 2016, a 675 percent increase over the same period last year. Of those, 13,100 (99.1 percent) are Muslims – 12,966 Sunnis, 24 Shi’a, and 110 other Muslims – and 77 (0.5 percent) are Christians. Another 24 (0.18 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 1, 2016 Amid an economic downturn at home, Saudi Arabia for seven consecutive months has failed to send a monthly payment of $20 million to the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority (PA) Finance Ministry said the cumulative total of Saudi aid that has not yet been transferred to the Treasury in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 1, 2016 Many centuries before their denial of a Jewish connection to Jerusalem, Muslims carved an inscription into a mosque acknowledging the link. The inscription from the Mosque of Umar in Nuba, a village nearly 26 kilometers (16 miles) southwest of Jerusalem, mentions the village as an endowment for the Dome […]
