by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2020 Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar, known as “Screaming Mary,” is the latest Iranian government official to be diagnosed with coronavirus, reports say. Earlier this week, Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi and member of parliament Mahmud Sadagi announced that they were infected with the disease. Ebtekar, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2020 The first U.S. clinical trial for a coronavirus treatment is underway at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) confirmed on Tuesday. The experimental therapy is biotech giant Gilead’s remdesivir, an antiviral with the potential to treat a host of pathogens […]
FPI / February 20, 2020 By Lee Cohen The Trump administration sees India as an important strategic ally in the region, particularly useful in pushing back against China’s Asian reach. While the past several years have yielded little significant progress in trade relations, the bilateral economic and defense relationships between the U.S. and India are […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2020 Is no one really above the law, as Democrats so often contend? Or is there indeed a two-tier system of justice favoring them? Consider the Logan Act, a federal law that prohibits unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments that are having a dispute with the United States. In 2017, Democrat […]
FPI / February 11, 2020 Iran’s Zafar satellite failed to enter orbit on Sunday and crashed in a rural area in the country’s southeast. It was the fourth failed satellite launch in a year for Iran. While major media reports focused on the failure to put the satellite into orbit, the U.S. State Department warned […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 7, 2020 Another top terrorist leader has been eliminated by U.S. forces, President Donald Trump said on Thursday. Trump said that U.S. forces at his direction conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that killed Qassim al-Rimi, the founder and leader of Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). “Under Rimi, AQAP […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2020 Japan has dispatched a helicopter destroyer to the Middle East to safeguard the nation’s oil supplies, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. The Takanami-class destroyer left its port near Tokyo on Feb. 2 and is tasked with protecting merchant ships and oil tankers passing through the Gulf of Oman. About […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 29, 2020 President Donald Trump on Tuesday aimed at reviving a Middle East peace process which went comatose under President Barack Obama. In issuing his “Deal of the Century” plan, Trump also took a decidedly different approach than his predecessor, James S. Robbins noted in a Jan. 28 analysis for USA […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 28, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East peace plan on Tuesday which called for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem. The so-called “Deal of the Century”, billed as the most-detailed such Mideast peace plan ever, would eventually double the Palestinians’ […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 28, 2020 A captured Islamic State (ISIS) mufti has confessed to issuing a series of rape-and-pillage “fatwas” that gave the group’s jihadists license to carry out gruesome atrocities while the terrorists controlled Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, from 2014 to 2017. Iraqi security forces released photos of ISIS honcho Shifa al-Nima on […]
