by WorldTribune Staff, July 1, 2016 A Coptic Christian priest was murdered on June 30 by a squad of gunmen from Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) Egyptian affiliate. The jihadist group said in a statement posted on social media that the gunmen from ISIL’s Sinai Province affiliate killed 46-year-old Raphael Moussa in the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 1, 2016 Syrian President Bashar Assad accused the United States and other Western nations of a “double standard” for secretly dealing with him while publicly criticizing him and calling for him to step down. “This is the double standard of the West in general: They attack us politically and they send […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 30, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is likely to attempt an attack like that on Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport in the United States, CIA Director John Brennan said. “I’d be surprised if Daesh (ISIL) is not trying to carry out that kind of attack in the United States,” Brennan […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 30, 2016 A top House Democrat is urging the Obama administration to halt Boeing’s planned sale of more than 100 planes to Iran. Rep. Brad Sherman of California said it is “virtually certain” Iran will use the planes for nefarious purposes, such as delivering arms to the Syrian regime or the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 29, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), which promised to unleash mass casualty attacks during the holy month of Ramadan, is suspected of carrying out terror strikes in Turkey, Yemen and Lebanon over a two-day period that left at least 89 people dead and wounded hundreds more. Turkish officials […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 29, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) jihadists have turned back an offensive by U.S.-backed Syrian rebels near a key supply route linking the terror group’s territory in Syria and Iraq. The U.S.-trained New Syrian Army (NSA), backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, seized a small airbase near the Abu […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 29, 2016 Iraqi forces are closing in on an airfield they hope to use as a staging ground for an offensive against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Mosul. The Iraqi forces are now some 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the airbase at Qayara, military officials told Reuters. Prime […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 28, 2016 The very people President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sought to defeat in Libya ended up being the only ones who came to the rescue of Americans under attack on Sept. 11, 2012 in Benghazi. Americans, who came under lethal mortar attack from terrorists, were rescued […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 27, 2016 After initially pointing the finger at Israel, Iran now says the United States was behind the assassination of notorious Hizbullah terrorist Mustafa Badreddine. Iranian leaders claim that Badreddine, who died in an explosion in Damascus on May 10, was taken out in a precision U.S. airstrike. “Radar that Iran […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 27, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is staging a comeback in Afghanistan just months after Kabul said the terror group had been defeated. At least a dozen Afghan security forces and civilians were killed and another 18 wounded as ISIL jihadists attacked police checkpoints in the Kot area […]
