by WorldTribune Staff, October 7, 2016 The “Middle East is burning” and the Obama administration is obsessing over “a few housing units” in Israel, the Israeli Justice Minister said in response to the U.S. State Department’s scolding over new settlements. On Oct. 5, the State Department released a statement saying it “strongly condemn[s] the Israeli […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 6, 2016 The entities at Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) are not cat people. The terrorist organization’s religious authorities have issued a new law banning the nurturing of pet cats as they are against ISIL’s “vision, ideology and beliefs”, according to the group’s propaganda network. The anti-cat law has […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2016 The Obama administration forged a secret deal to lift sanctions on an Iranian bank that was a primary funding stream for the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program, a report said. The deal called for the immediate lifting of sanctions on Iran’s Bank Sepah – eight years before the sanctions […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2016 The Pentagon is publicly challenging Russia’s motives for deploying an S-300 missile defense system to Syria. “Last I checked, the Russians said that their primary goal was to fight extremism, ISIL and Nusra, in Syria,” Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said, referring to Islamic State of Iraq and Levant and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2016 The Obama administration has decided to dismiss charges against an arms dealer it had indicted for shipping weapons to Libyan rebels, some of which wound up in the hands of Islamic terrorists. Lawyers for the Justice Department on Oct. 3 filed a motion in federal court in Phoenix to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has sent 800 additional jihadists to defend the Syrian town of Dabiq, which holds more ideological than military importance for the terror group. Dabiq, which ISIL captured in August 2014, occupies a central place in the terror organization’s version of Muslim theology. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2016 In a sign of warming ties between the two nations, the Egyptian and Russian parliaments on Oct. 4 said they were united in their stand against foreign powers who would seek to change Middle East regimes by force. “We decided that we should rally support among as many world […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 4, 2016 A bunker-buster bomb hit the main trauma hospital in the rebel-held eastern part of Aleppo on Oct. 3 in the third airstrike on the facility in a week, reports say. “The hospital is now not usable at all. It is not salvageable,” Adham Sahloul of the Syrian American Medical […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 3, 2016 Saudi Arabia has one of the highest rates of divorce in the world. In the kingdom, which follows strict guidelines of Wahhabi Islam, 30 percent of marriages now end in divorce. “The society and laws (of Saudi Arabia) prevent any kind of interaction between males and females (before marriage), […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 3, 2016 Hillary Clinton would continue President Barack Obama’s “slow-rolling” fight against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) while Donald Trump would look to “rapidly” defeat the terror organization, former U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton said. “Hillary Clinton is going to be Barack Obama’s third term,” Bolton, who […]
