Egypt launches retaliatory airstrikes on ISIL in Sinai

Egypt launches retaliatory airstrikes on ISIL in Sinai

by WorldTribune Staff, October 16, 2016 Egypt launched airstrikes on Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) targets in Sinai on Oct. 15, one day after ISIL jihadists killed 12 Egyptian security personnel. “A targeted airstrike, which lasted for three hours, resulted in the destruction of the areas … that harbored terrorists, as well as […]

Bring back the sheriff: As thug regimes get in their final blows, real world leaders are backing Trump

Bring back the sheriff: As thug regimes get in their final blows, real world leaders are backing Trump

Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy It is difficult to say who will be elected by American people, but the world (except sterile Western Europe) has made its choice. And this choice, despite formal logic, is the “racist,” “sexist,” “imperialist”, “islamophobe” Donald Trump. In New York, the President of Egypt Abdul Fatah Sisi met with […]

Brand differentiation: How candidates characterize terror threat is hot campaign topic

Brand differentiation: How candidates characterize terror threat is hot campaign topic

Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct.com, October 4, 2016 The 2016 major party presidential candidates differ greatly on how they define the terrorist organizations that America has been fighting for the last 15 years. Republican nominee Donald Trump has been highly critical of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for refusing to define the threat as “radical Islamic […]

Debate No. 2: What Clinton and Trump actually said about key foreign policy issues and each other

Debate No. 2: What Clinton and Trump actually said about key foreign policy issues and each other

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican rival Donald Trump clashed in an acrimonious second debate in St. Louis on October 9, assailing one another’s character and record. Here are some highlights of what they had to say on several central campaign issues during the […]

Iraqi prime minister disinvites Turkey from operation to liberate Mosul from ISIL

Iraqi prime minister disinvites Turkey from operation to liberate Mosul from ISIL

by WorldTribune Staff, October 10, 2016 Turkey will have no role in the liberation of Mosul from Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said. “Turkish forces will not be allowed to participate in the liberation of Mosul under any circumstances,” Abadi said during a visit to the city of Karbala […]

Apocalypse now or later: The fight For Dabiq puts the ISIL brand to the test

Apocalypse now or later: The fight For Dabiq puts the ISIL brand to the test

Special to WorldTribune.com By David Patrikarakos Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The town of Dabiq, in northern Syria, around 25 miles from Aleppo, with its population of just under 3,500, is an unimpressive site for a battle that is supposed to herald the Apocalypse. Yet, according to the Hadith (a collection of reports about […]

Egypt calls U.S. security warning to tourists ‘unjustifiable’

Egypt calls U.S. security warning to tourists ‘unjustifiable’

by WorldTribune Staff, October 9, 2016 Government officials in Cairo are fuming over the “unjustifiable” decision by the U.S. to issue a travel warning for tourists visiting Egypt this weekend. The U.S. embassy warned tourists against being in public spaces in Egypt such as concert halls, movie theaters, museums, shopping malls, and sports venues. Oct. […]

ISIL bans cats as contrary to its ‘vision, ideology and beliefs’

ISIL bans cats as contrary to its ‘vision, ideology and beliefs’

by WorldTribune Staff, October 6, 2016 The entities at Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) are not cat people. The terrorist organization’s religious authorities have issued a new law banning the nurturing of pet cats as they are against ISIL’s “vision, ideology and beliefs”, according to the group’s propaganda network. The anti-cat law has […]

Russia’s deployment of S-300 to Syria seen as challenge to U.S. air power

Russia’s deployment of S-300 to Syria seen as challenge to U.S. air power

by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2016 The Pentagon is publicly challenging Russia’s motives for deploying an S-300 missile defense system to Syria. “Last I checked, the Russians said that their primary goal was to fight extremism, ISIL and Nusra, in Syria,” Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said, referring to Islamic State of Iraq and Levant and […]

ISIL prepares for ‘apocalyptic’ battle to hold Dabiq, Syria

ISIL prepares for ‘apocalyptic’ battle to hold Dabiq, Syria

by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has sent 800 additional jihadists to defend the Syrian town of Dabiq, which holds more ideological than military importance for the terror group. Dabiq, which ISIL captured in August 2014, occupies a central place in the terror organization’s version of Muslim theology. […]

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