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 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 President Barack Obama dusted off the “blame Bush” card one last time as, in his final national security address, he said former President George W. Bush and Iraq’s leaders were largely responsible for the rise of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Most military officials and analysts believe […]
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 A spokesman for the LNA said rival fighters had withdrawn after briefly occupying the town of Ben Jawad, 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of […]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 2, 2016 Iraq’s effort to liberate Mosul is being significantly slowed by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) use of remotely-guided car bombs. The terror group is sending out vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs) “at the astounding rate of 14 per day” around Mosul, according to the Washington Post. “The group […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2016 Terrorism does not appear to be high on the priority list for the Department of Homeland Security after a series of attacks in the U.S. by militant Islamists, most recently in Ohio. In fiscal year 2015, only two of the 176,397 removal orders requested by the Department of Homeland […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 29, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) jihadists used 4-wheel drive vehicles rigged with explosives to attack a North Sinai checkpoint on Nov. 24, killing at least 12 Egyptian soldiers. “A number of caliphate soldiers attacked a checkpoint belonging to the apostate Egyptian army in the Sabeel village, southwest […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 28, 2016 Four gunmen from an Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) affiliate in Syria were killed after they attacked Israeli soldiers in the Golan Heights on Nov. 27. In the first attack by ISIL against Israel, the four jihadists opened fire with machine guns and mortars. The Israeli soldiers […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — It’ s not often a senior UN official leaves a prepared and rigid script to emotionally describe a situation to delegates in the Security Council. But when Humanitarian Chief Stephen O’Brien told diplomats, “I am more or less at my wit’s end as a human […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 24, 2016 The U.S. is flying surveillance drones from Tunisia to scope out Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) activity in Libya, Tunisia’s president confirmed. Last month, U.S. government sources said unarmed American drones had begun flying into Libya from a Tunisian air base. Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said […]
