by WorldTribune Staff, December 12, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) regained full control of Palmyra on Dec. 11 after Syrian forces pulled out of the ancient city, a report said. “Despite the ongoing (Russian) air raids, ISIL retook all of Palmyra after the Syrian army withdrew south of the city,” said Rami […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 12, 2016 Death and destruction to Iran’s neighbors will be the result if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s policies lead to war in the Middle East, Iran’s defense minister said on Dec. 11. “Enemies may want to impose a war on us based on false calculations and only taking into consideration their […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 11, 2016 Russian airstrikes drove Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) forces out of Palmyra in Syria hours after the terror group had retaken the ancient city. Russia’s defense ministry said its warplanes carried out more than 60 strikes on Palmyra late on Dec. 10 and into the early morning […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 11, 2016 At least 25 people, mostly women and children, were killed on Dec. 11 in a terrorist bombing near Egypt’s main Coptic Christian cathedral in Cairo. Another 49 people were wounded in the blast, which took place as Sunday Mass was being held in a chapel adjacent to St. Mark’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 9, 2016 A film that exposes the horrendous treatment of homosexuals during Fidel Castro’s reign has been banned from a Cuban film festival. “Santa et Andres,” a film by 33-year-old Cuban Carlos Lechuga, was barred from the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana due to a “question of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 9, 2016 The U.S.-led coalition has killed at least 50,000 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) fighters, a U.S. official said on Dec. 8. “I am not into morbid counts but that kind of volume matters, that kind of impact on the enemy,” the senior official said, according to AFP. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 8, 2016 North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory nearly rode Donald Trump’s coattails to the finish line, but a torrent of outside money and the radical Left’s ability to push major sports organizations, businesses, and celebrities to boycott the state over HB2 ultimately brought him down, constitutional groups say. “McCrory came very […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 8, 2016 Gen. Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) turned back an attack by a rival faction on some of Libya’s major oil ports on Dec. 7. A spokesman for the LNA said rival fighters had withdrawn after briefly occupying the town of Ben Jawad, 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 8, 2016 Saudi Arabia’s strategy to drive U.S. shale out of the energy market has failed. “The new OPEC deal to cut oil output – the cartel’s first since 2008 – amounts to nothing less than Saudi Arabia’s surrender to the power of American shale,” John Hulsman wrote for UK business daily City […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The press agency for Iran’s hard-line conservative volunteer militia, the Basij, has quoted a senior official as saying that 50 Iranian student volunteers have been killed while fighting in Syria. Basij Press quoted Daud Gudrazi — the head of the Student Basij Organization, a branch of […]
