by WorldTribune Staff, October 24, 2019 Turkey has agreed to end its military operation against U.S.-allied Kurds in Syria and the U.S. is lifting sanctions it had imposed on Turkey, President Donald Trump said on Oct. 23. “Today’s announcement validates our course of action with Turkey that only a couple of weeks ago was scorned,” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 24, 2019 The mostly Muslim detainees at China’s re-education camps are subjected to brutal torture, according to a Uighur woman who was detained at one of the camps. They are forced to take drugs which cause memory loss and infertility. Women are raped by guards in front of other prisoners. Conditions […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — You can’t make this up. Venezuela, a state marred by widespread human rights abuses, one whose government has created humanitarian violations and then callously blocked international humanitarian aid, has won a contested seat on the UN’s Human Rights Council in a three-way race for two […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 23, 2019 The Free Syrian Army, which was regarded as a strong ally by the Obama administration, is in reality “the new ISIS” and is committing atrocities against civilians in Syria, the president of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) told a group of U.S. congressional representatives on Oct. 21. Ilham Ahmed […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 23, 2019 Democrats are now saying that their behind-closed-doors “impeachment inquiry” will likely go longer than planned. In the meantime, radio host Rush Limbaugh noted during his Oct. 22 broadcast that President Donald Trump is “outperforming the Democrats in fundraising, and there’s internal polling on the Republican side suggesting that this […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 23, 2019 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s address to the Heritage Foundation President’s Club Meeting on Oct. 22: Thank you all. Thank you. Well, good morning, everyone. So I’ve got a prepared speech, and then I got some thoughts. (Laughter.) And I’ll mix them in this morning. I want to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk SEOUL — Americans hardly know how to respond to all those American flags seen in central Seoul on Saturday afternoons and evenings. Initially, as Korean conservatives began flying the Stars and Stripes at conservative rallies after the impeachment, ouster and jailing of Park Geun-Hye in 2016 and 2017, Americans […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 22, 2019 The name Joseph Mifsud, the reclusive Maltese professor who appears in the Mueller report 87 times, suddenly reappeared last week in the trial of former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Sidney Powell, Flynn’s attorney, filed a motion in U.S. District Court disclosing that the federal government has come into […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 22, 2019 A Dallas jury has ruled against a father who was seeking to stop his ex-wife from starting their 7-year-old son on the drugs necessary for gender transition. The jury decided the boy’s mother, Dr. Anne Georgulas, a pediatrician, has full authority to continue to “transition” James, who is being […]
Special to WorldTribune, October 22, 2019 Analysis by Christopher W. Holton, Center for Security Policy Tulsi Gabbard, one of the minor candidates from the 20-strong field of Democrat presidential hopefuls, has been getting a considerable amount of attention due to Hillary Clinton’s allegations that she is a “Russian asset.” While it is true that Kremlin-backed […]
