by WorldTribune Staff, October 8, 2017 The United States has increased U-2 reconnaissance operations over the Korean peninsula after ominous warnings from North Korea watchers in several nations and a first-hand report from Pyongyang. Anton Morozov, a member of the Russian lower house of parliament’s international affairs committee, revealed North Korea’s plans after he returned […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 6, 2017 The new documentary series “The Vietnam War” ignores why the U.S. entered the war and overlooks facts that ultimately could have won the war, a former National Security Council (NSC) member wrote. The series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick “is most certainly a TV tour de force replete […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2017 Imran Awan, his brothers and their associates were merely doing what they were “ordered to do” by Democratic members of Congress when the IT aides allegedly falsified records on how the members’ office budgets were spent, according to lawyers for Awan. Awan was arrested in July while trying to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 4, 2017 A conservative think tank in Washington called off a public meeting with Chinese dissident Guo Wengui after the think tank’s website was targeted in a denial of service cyber attack traced to Shanghai, a report said. The Hudson Institute on Oct. 2 sent an email notice stating the widely-anticipated […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 3, 2017 [Updated October 5] Thus far, authorities have been able to confirm officially that Stephen Paddock, the man responsible for the Las Vegas massacre, was a 64-year-old heavy gambler who owned a lot of guns but had no criminal record and was not known to police. As with the shooting […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 2, 2017 Xi Jinping has amassed immense power as China’s President, Chairman of the Central Military Commission and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. However billionaire dissident Guo Wengui claims on social media including YouTube from his new home in the United States that Xi has maintained his position by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 1, 2017 Iran has cut fuel oil to Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey’s president said Israel’s Mossad was to blame for Kurdistan’s Sept. 25 vote for independence. Speaking from a secret location, the leader of Iran-backed Hizbullah said the vote was a “plot” conceived by the U.S. and Israel. Kurds flying Israeli […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 29, 2017 North Korea “will be the world’s first nuclear armed extortionist,” an analyst wrote. Foreign Minister Ri Yong-Ho publicly stated in front of the UN General Assembly that the Kim Jong-Un regime intends “to handsomely profit from their ability to enforce settlement of their alleged grievances against the world with […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — One of the silent tragedies among the conflicts raging in the Middle East, concerns the fate of the ancient and now persecuted Christian communities. Concerns for the forgotten and once vibrant Christian minorities especially in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon are often politely air brushed out […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 27, 2017 U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s plane was the target of a Taliban rocket attack that left five civilians wounded as Mattis arrived for a surprise visit in Afghanistan on Sept. 27. Mattis and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg had already left Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport at the time of […]
