Leaks reveal Soros organizations’ efforts to mask anti-Israel agenda

Leaks reveal Soros organizations’ efforts to mask anti-Israel agenda

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2016 The hacking of a network of organizations funded by billionaire leftist George Soros has laid bare the network’s extensive anti-Israel bias and how it went to great lengths to conceal it. Confidential reports from the Open Society Foundations, made available on the website DC Leaks, showed the Soros network […]

Kurdish forces liberate ISIL-held villages near Mosul

Kurdish forces liberate ISIL-held villages near Mosul

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2016 Kurdish peshmerga forces took 11 villages from Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) as they advanced on the terror group’s stronghold at Mosul. The Kurds were backed by U.S. airstrikes on Aug. 14 as they advanced from the southeast of Mosul. Iraqi troops are taking up positions to […]

Libyan forces said on verge of ‘victory’ over ISIL in Sirte

Libyan forces said on verge of ‘victory’ over ISIL in Sirte

by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2016 The battle to drive Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) out of their coastal stronghold at Sirte “is over,” the spokesman for Libya’s pro-government forces said. Meanwhile living conditions for the average Libyan is deteriorating. ISIL “has only control over one sector, residential district one in the heart […]

Germany turns blind eye as Christian migrants forced to hide Bibles amid death threats from Muslims

Germany turns blind eye as Christian migrants forced to hide Bibles amid death threats from Muslims

by WorldTribune Staff, August 12, 2016 Christian asylum seekers who are residing in Germany’s migrant housing facilities regularly receive death threats from Muslim refugees in the camps. “Bibles and crucifixes are kept hidden, children are shielded and all services must be held without the rest of the population knowing,” according to a report by Catholic […]

Kurdish forces launch Iraqi offensive against ISIL-held Mosul

Kurdish forces launch Iraqi offensive against ISIL-held Mosul

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Kurdish militia fighters in Iraq’s Kurdish region have launched an offensive as part of the effort to capture the city of Mosul from the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. The August 14 offensive began shortly after a campaign of intense artillery shelling and air strikes by […]

France — Summer of terror now and in the 1960s

France — Summer of terror now and in the 1960s

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler PARIS — Imagine for a moment arriving at Sunday morning religious service only to see the doors of the church guarded by camouflage-clad soldiers with automatic weapons. Well, this was the stark reality when we arrived at our neighborhood church, a structure dating from the 15th century, but […]

British schoolgirl who joined ISIL believed killed by Russian airstrike

British schoolgirl who joined ISIL believed killed by Russian airstrike

by WorldTribune Staff, August 12, 2016 A 17-year-old British girl who joined Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) last year is said to have been killed in a Russian airstrike on the terror group’s de facto capital at Raqqa, Syria. Kadiza Sultana was one of three London schoolgirls who made headlines last year when […]

Anti-Semitism at Olympics by Muslim nations keeps age-old animosities alive

Anti-Semitism at Olympics by Muslim nations keeps age-old animosities alive

by WorldTribune Staff, August 11, 2016 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reprimanded the Saudi and Lebanese Olympic delegations for their open “hostility” toward Israeli athletes at the Rio Olympic Games. The treatment of Israel’s athletes is “shocking but not surprisingly,” Roz Rothstein, CEO of the pro-Israel group Stand With Us, said in a statement […]

Saudi pumping oil at record levels as U.S. frackers cut back

Saudi pumping oil at record levels as U.S. frackers cut back

by WorldTribune Staff, August 11, 2016 Saudi Arabia continues to pump oil at record levels as U.S. shale producers prepare to cut back amid seasonal maintenance at American refineries. Saudi has said it will not agree on limitations on production unless all OPEC nations, including Iran, agree. Iran, which has resumed production faster than expected […]

State Dept. report: Some Islamic laws contradict ‘universally recognized human rights’

State Dept. report: Some Islamic laws contradict ‘universally recognized human rights’

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty In a new report, the U.S. State Department raised concerns over laws against blasphemy and apostasy in Islamic societies. “Such laws conflict with and undermine universally recognized human rights,” it said in its annual report on global religious freedom released on August 10. In Pakistan, blasphemy […]