Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Newly installed United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said he wants to make 2017 a year to “put peace first.” Guterres, who replaced Ban Ki-moon on Jan. 1 as UN chief, said in a message that he will be working to resolve people trapped in wars […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 1, 2017 The United States will be without an aircraft carrier presence in the Middle East for up to two months. The return of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower to its Norfolk homeport comes “amid a heated fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria and a slew of burgeoning […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON – The U.S. refusal to veto the UN Security Council resolution attacking Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory as “a flagrant violation” of international law has triggered cries of outrage worthy of full-scale hostilities. You might think, from the responses of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that President Barack […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Syrian government and its opponents have signed an agreement on a nationwide cease-fire and a declaration expressing willingness to begin peace talks. Putin said on December 29 that a document outlining measures to implement the cease-fire was also signed. The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 29, 2016 Syria would be divided into zones of regional power and President Bashar Assad would be allowed to remain in control under a “compromise” agreement worked out by Russia, Turkey and Iran. Under the deal, the new federal structure in Syria would be controlled by Assad’s Alawite sect. Assad’s powers […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Jonathan Alexander, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The “Great Intra-Muslim War” — which began with the split within the jihadist movement after the death of Osama bin Laden — seems set to resume its intensity. It had become lost in the major wars in Syria and Iraq, and in the civil war […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 27, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) will be defeated in Iraq and Syria in 2017, but the driving force behind its bloody ideology, the establishment of a Salafi Sunni Islam Kingdom on earth, will not go away, analysts say. ISIL “is arguably more dangerous and effective than Al […]
Special to WorldTribune , December 25, 2016 The Bible (King James version), the Book of Luke 2:1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. 2:2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 2:3 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2016 Hizbullah fighters in Syria are using American armored personnel carriers originally supplied by the U.S. to the Lebanese army, a senior Israeli military officer said. In an intelligence briefing to foreign reporters in Tel Aviv on Dec. 21, the senior officer showed a photograph of Iran-backed Hizbullah military vehicles, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A Russian court has found a former Moscow State University student guilty of trying to join the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and sentenced her to 4 1/2 years in prison. The Moscow Regional Military court convicted Aleksandra Ivanova — better known […]
