by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2017 President Donald Trump can’t be everywhere even when his twitter feed can. But sometimes, in 2017, he has to try. That’s where his favored son-in-law is becoming a major factor. From pulling the strings in the U.S.-Mexico relationship to helping solve the nation’s opioid addiction problem and draining the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, Ankara There were, by the end of March 2017, growing indications that Turkish President Reçep Tayyip Erdoğan had concrete plans to unleash a new wave of undocumented migrants into the European Union if he failed to win the absolute power he was seeking in the April 16, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 29, 2017 Attacks involving vehicles as the weapon of choice for terrorists will likely increase as they are inexpensive to organize and easier to pull off than bombings or mass shootings, analysts say. “The success of vehicular attacks, a low-tech, inexpensive and almost unstoppable method of killing civilians and getting international […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 29, 2017 British officials have acknowledged that Islamist indoctrination by “non-violent extremists” was key in influencing terrorists who carried out attacks in the UK. Activist and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, in an opinion piece for The Washington Times on March 28, wrote that “it is important for the United States to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 28, 2017 A blast in Mosul in which 200 civilians were killed, which was attributed to a U.S. airstrike in some reports, was the result of an Islamic State (ISIS) bomb, Iraq’s military said. U.S. Central Command spokesman Col. John Thomas told The New York Times that the U.S. was investigating […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 24, 2017 Three Egyptian military officers and seven soldiers were killed on March 23 during an operation against terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula. The security forces’ vehicles were hit by two improvised bombs during the operation, the military said, according to Reuters. Egyptian forces killed 15 jihadists and arrested seven others […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 24, 2017 The United States and the Afghan army it is training plan to drive the Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate out of Afghanistan this year, U.S. military officials said. Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), based near the Afghan-Pakistan border, has increased its recruiting and the number of terror attacks it has […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The British-born man who carried out the deadly terrorist attack near parliament in London was a “soldier” of Islamic State, the extremist group has said through its unofficial news agency, Amaq. British authorities say the assailant in the March 22 attack fatally stabbed a police officer […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 16, 2017 Hizbullah is producing its own missiles in well-protected factories in Lebanon and has raised its level of preparedness for a massive attack on Israel, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander said. Iran has opened factories in Lebanon to manufacture long-range missiles as well as other munitions and has […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The U.S. envoy to the coalition against Islamic State (ISIS) fighters in Mosul says any militants left in the Iraqi city will die. Brett McGurk made the remarks on March 12 as Iraqi forces recaptured a third of western Mosul and cut off the last road […]
