by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2016 Hizbullah fighters in Syria are using American armored personnel carriers originally supplied by the U.S. to the Lebanese army, a senior Israeli military officer said. In an intelligence briefing to foreign reporters in Tel Aviv on Dec. 21, the senior officer showed a photograph of Iran-backed Hizbullah military vehicles, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 21, 2016 Iran is complicit “in the most atrocious war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 21st century,” an intelligence report by an opposition group said of Iran’s actions in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo. “Mass executions, preventing the transfer of civilians, including women and children, [and] attacking civilians […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 19, 2016 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security gave groups of Somalis comprehensive tours of secured areas in at least three major U.S. airports, according to newly released documents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The “community engagement tours,” which included security briefings, were held in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Columbus, Ohio. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 18, 2016 Democratic analysts never miss an opportunity to point out how Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election by 2.8 million votes. What they never mention, however, is that Clinton’s entire popular vote lead, and then some, comes entirely from California. “If you take California out […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 18, 2016 China has said it will return a U.S. underwater drone it seized in the South China Sea. Not long after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s statement criticizing the incident, China’s Defense Ministry said it would return the drone to the U.S. Navy. The drone, launched by the USNS Bowditch, a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, ‘Inside China’, Geostrategy-Direct.com “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The Iranian president has ordered the country’s scientists to start planning the development of nuclear marine propulsion in response to what he called the United States’ violation of last year’s nuclear agreement between Teheran and world powers. The White House reacted to news of President Hassan […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 13, 2016 After eight years of all but ignoring cyber attacks on U.S. interests by Russia, China and North Korea, President Barack Obama now has ordered a full investigation into alleged Russian cyber meddling in the 2016 election. “Any intelligence review should coincide with a companion investigation by Congress into why […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 12, 2016 Former U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton believes the alleged Russian hacking of the presidential election could be a “false flag” orchestrated by the Obama administration. “I do think it’s critical to answer the question that I posed: If you think the Russians did this, then why did […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 11, 2016 The CIA has “secretly” come to the conclusion that Russian hackers supplied stolen emails to WikiLeaks in an effort to influence the Nov. 8 election, according to unnamed sources that formed the basis for reports by the Washington Post and the New York Times. Publicly, however, Director of U.S. […]
