by WorldTribune Staff, September 6, 2016 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton squandered an opportunity for the U.S. to gain a treasure trove of intelligence on China when she turned a high-level Chinese defector over to Beijing, a report said. In 2012, Clinton turned away Wang Lijun, a police chief and close aide to an up […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 6, 2016 The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is interviewing candidates to replace its dead spokesman whose job description included planning the international attacks that terrorized the West over the past year. ISIL is said to have two candidates on its short list to replace Abu Mohamed al-Adnani, who […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 6, 2016 U.S. Marines on the ground in Iraq are increasing efforts to gather intelligence on Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) fighters and equipment to assist Iraqi forces in an operation to retake Mosul by year’s end. The Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Central Command is providing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 6, 2016 The Obama administration is not only letting Iran “push the envelope” but appears to be acting as the Islamic Republic’s “lawyers” when it comes to enforcement of last summer’s nuclear deal, an Israeli analyst said. “Iran is continuing to push the envelope, trying to get as much as it […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders It would be hard to exaggerate the mess in the Middle East that President Barack Obama is leaving his successor. While the five-year Syrian civil war continues unabated, pitting a number of different armed groups against each other with their foreign sponsors, Washington is caught in its own […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 5, 2016 Hillary Clinton, who often and proudly spoke of her Methodist roots during her 2008 campaign, has little use for faith in 2016 – unless she’s trying to make political gain in heavily-Christian areas or in speeches at black churches. Since her defeat in 2008, Clinton has also abandoned traditional […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 5, 2016 The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party made huge gains on Sept. 4 as voters sent a “message of protest” to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel’s Christian Democrats were beaten into third place by the (AfD) in the chancellor’s home district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. “This is a slap in the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2016 Fed up with what socialism has wrought in their country, angry Venezuelans on Sept. 3 chased President Nicolas Maduro through the streets during what was supposed to be a routine political event. Maduro had traveled to Margarita Island off Venezuela’s northern coast to inaugurate a number of new public […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2016 China’s lack of a “red carpet” welcome to U.S. President Barack Obama when he arrived for the G20 summit was seen by some as a “deliberate snub.” While other leaders arriving in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou got the full diplomatic red carpet treatment, Obama used a smaller, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders President Enrique Peña Nieto’s invitation to the two U.S. candidates for president is one more instance of the growing role of Mexico in domestic American politics. There was a time, now long ago politically, when Mexican politicians preferred to ignore what they considered an embarrassment of the Mexican […]
