Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly warned that Israel will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon or to build missile factories in Syria. The Israeli military has formally acknowledged for the first time its destruction of a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Donald Trump has used an annual message to Iranians and others celebrating Norouz, the Persian New Year, to sharply criticize Iran’s government and the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). “I wish a beautiful and blessed Norouz to the millions of people around the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 19, 2018 Turkey is waging “demographic jihad” in Europe, a U.S.-based Turkish journalist wrote. The attempt by Ankara “to guarantee that Muslims outnumber Christians globally has been accompanied by the erection of mosques – ‘from Europe to Africa, from the Balkans to the Central Asia’ – by Turkey’s government-funded Diyanet (Religious Affairs General Directorate),” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2018 President Donald Trump on March 16 signed legislation which calls for the U.S. government to support expanded official visits to and from Taiwan “at all levels.” China voiced its displeasure with Trump’s signing of the Taiwan Travel Act, saying that it “severely violates the one-China principle, the political foundation […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 16, 2018 Russian government hackers have for at least two years attempted cyberattacks on the U.S. power grid, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. The attacks, beginning in March 2016 and possibly earlier, targeted multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation and manufacturing, according to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 15, 2018 An article on alleged Russian intelligence communications with the Trump campaign that helped The New York Times win a top journalism award was complete “bulls—,” according to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. The February 2017 report detailed how U.S. intelligence had acquired numerous intercepts and phone records of Trump campaign officials […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 14, 2018 CIA Director Mike Pompeo, U.S. President Donald Trump’s choice to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, is an Iran hawk who, as a congressman, opposed the Iran nuclear deal. Trump has called it “the worst deal ever” and cited it on March 13 in explaining why he fired Tillerson. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2018 A group of Obama administration officials have formed a think tank that aims to organize a “relentless, and national response” to what it calls the Trump administration’s “dangerous approach to national security.” National Security Action (NSA) is co-chaired by President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2018 Arab states are changing their attitude toward Israel as they come to the realization that a nuclear-capable Iran would be the largest threat in the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “Iran is trying to build an empire. An aggressive empire,” which is “trying to conquer the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2018 South Korea’s national security adviser has said that U.S. President Donald Trump has been fully engaged since the beginning in negotiating with North Korea. For all those hours of engagement, however, it took only about half a minute on Thursday (March 8), for Trump to set in motion a […]
