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, […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 21, 2016 Stay away from Vaporeon. And don’t even bother looking for Charizard. That is the message Saudi Arabia’s top clerical body is sending the country’s citizens who have been stung by the Pokemon Go bug. The mega-popular smartphone app that puts cartoon monsters in the real world is “un-Islamic” and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 20, 2016 The Obama administration withheld from the public a secret side deal it made with Iran in nuclear negotiations, the State Department has acknowledged. State Department spokesman Mark Toner on July 19 confirmed the side deal of the Iran nuclear agreement would lift some of the nuclear restrictions on Iran […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 20, 2016 The WikiLeaks website was blocked by the Turkish government on July 20 after it leaked a slew of classified emails linked to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup purges. The move by the Turkish government came a day after WikiLeaks released 300,000 emails from Erdogan’s Islamist AKP party. The country’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 20, 2016 A 17-year-old Afghan refugee who attacked passengers on a train in Bavaria, Germany with an axe had a hand-painted Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) flag in his home, police said. Along with the flag, police found a letter the attacker appeared to have written to his father, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 19, 2016 Shi’ite-majority Iran has said it fully supports the government of Sunni-majority Turkey in the wake of the July 15 coup attempt as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup purge topped 7,500 arrests. A senior aide to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Teheran backs Turkey’s elected government […]
