Special to WorldTribune , December 21, 2017 Yes: 128 No: 9 Abstain: 35 Y AFGHANISTAN Y DOMINICA Y LITHUANIA SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE Y ALBANIA A DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Y LUXEMBOURG Y SAUDI ARABIA Y ALGERIA Y ECUADOR Y MADAGASCAR Y SENEGAL Y ANDORRA Y EGYPT A MALAWI Y SERBIA Y ANGOLA EL SALVADOR Y MALAYSIA […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to Syria, declaring victory and ordering the Russian military to start withdrawing a “significant portion” of its forces from the war-ravaged Middle Eastern nation. “I order the defense minister and the head of the general staff to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 7, 2017 Regional enemies Saudi Arabia and Iran see eye to eye on one issue. On Dec. 6 both regimes blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and start the process of moving the U.S. embassy to the city. Saudi Arabia called the move “unjustified and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 1, 2017 China will send special operations forces to Syria to support the Assad regime’s fight against militant factions, a report said. The Chinese Ministry of Defense will deploy two units known as the “Tigers of Siberia” and the “Dark Night Tigers” to Syria, New Khaleej reported, citing informed sources. There […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 26, 2017 Syria is prepared to discuss with Israel the disarmament of the Golan Heights as part of an agreement that would leave President Bashar Assad in power, a report said. Assad, in a message conveyed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Damascus was ready […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 21, 2017 The Obama administration, via the nuclear deal, opened the door for Iran’s march toward “erecting a new empire” in the Middle East and the Trump administration has not gone far enough to stop it, an analyst wrote. “The pace of Iran’s imperial project is now accelerating,” Ilan Berman, senior vice […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — A key UN Committee has condemned Iran’s widespread use of the death penalty and has urged the Islamic Republic to eliminate “all discrimination and rights violations against women and girls.” In a separate resolution, the Third Committee roundly chastised North Korea’s grave human rights situation […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 19, 2017 Islamic State (ISIS) has lost control of the last significant town it held in Syria, a military news service run by Hizbullah said on Nov. 19. The Syrian army and its allies took complete control over Albu Kamal, the Hizbullah news service reported. ISIS now controls only a few […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 12, 2017 Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists on Nov. 11 recaptured the town of Abu Kamal in eastern Syria from the Syrian army. Earlier this week, Syrian troops and allied militia fighters had entered Abu Kamal and by the next day had declared the town liberated from ISIS’s control. Syrian regime forces […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Christopher Sparks, November 8, 2017 The Assad regime is responsible for a sarin gas attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun on April 4 of this year, according to the UN’s chemical weapons investigative body. Meanwhile, Islamic State (ISIS) carried out a sulfur mustard gas attack on the Syrian town of […]
