Express check-in? DHS intel worker arrested for bringing loaded handgun to the office

Express check-in? DHS intel worker arrested for bringing loaded handgun to the office

by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2016 A 46 year-old man working for the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis was arrested on June 9 for carrying a loaded handgun to work, sources confirmed. As an employee working in an area with classified information, the man was not authorized to have a handgun […]

Hillary Clinton: No American lives were lost in Libya intervention

Hillary Clinton: No American lives were lost in Libya intervention

by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2016 Hillary Clinton, in a June 8 interview with PBS, claimed no American lives were lost in the U.S. intervention in Libya and hinted that “pre-existing rivalries” were the primary cause of the chaos that followed. “After due diligence, we came up with a way of supporting their efforts that […]

Iran denies visas to three GOP congressmen who opposed nuclear deal

Iran denies visas to three GOP congressmen who opposed nuclear deal

by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 Three Republican congressmen who voted against Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers have been denied visas by Teheran. Calling their request to monitor the nuclear deal a “publicity stunt,” Iran on June 7 said it would not grant visas to Reps. Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey, Mike Pompeo of […]

Iran credits nuclear deal with the doubling of its oil export capacity

Iran credits nuclear deal with the doubling of its oil export capacity

by WorldTribune Staff, June 7, 2016 Post-sanctions Iran has doubled its oil export capacity, the Islamic republic’s oil minister said. Speaking at an economic meeting in Teheran on June 4, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said the capacity to produce and export crude and oil products has doubled thanks to the implementation of the […]

U.S.-backed Kurds, Russia-backed Syrians advance on Raqqa in pincer movement

U.S.-backed Kurds, Russia-backed Syrians advance on Raqqa in pincer movement

by WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2016 A U.S.-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance from the north and Russian-backed Syrian troops from the southwest are set to catch Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in a pincer movement as they advance on the terror group’s stronghold at Raqqa. U.S. military officials said the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance […]

Tech wars: Obama took no action to stop advanced Russian arms sales to Iran

Tech wars: Obama took no action to stop advanced Russian arms sales to Iran

Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct.com Though he could contest the sale of Russia’s advanced S-300 missile system to Iran, U.S. President Barack Obama has not. Analysts see Obama’s hesitancy as another in a long line of capitulations to Iran and at least one congressman has launched an official inquiry into the matter. Administration officials declined […]

Two U.S. soldiers, ‘not on the front lines’ wounded in Iraq, Syria

Two U.S. soldiers, ‘not on the front lines’ wounded in Iraq, Syria

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The United States says two of its service members were injured over the weekend, one each in Iraq and Syria. Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis said on May 31 that the two soldiers “were not on the front lines, they were not engaged in active combat, but […]

Senate panel unanimously approves quadrupling missile defense aid to Israel

Senate panel unanimously approves quadrupling missile defense aid to Israel

by WorldTribune Staff, May 31, 2016 The Senate Appropriations Committee has unanimously approved an increase in spending on Israeli missile defense that is four times more than what President Barack Obama had requested. The increase proposes $600 million in funding for fiscal year 2017 – an increase of $113 million from last year and $454 […]

Saudis hit Iran’s key role as Iraqi offensive targets Fallujah; ISIL car bombs Baghdad

Saudis hit Iran’s key role as Iraqi offensive targets Fallujah; ISIL car bombs Baghdad

by WorldTribune Staff, May 30, 2016 Saudi Arabia condemned Iran’s “intervention” in Iraq as Iraqi forces began their push into Fallujah on May 29. While U.S. special forces are on the front lines in Syria in a new offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, Iran “has become the face […]

ISIL gains territory near Turkish border through which rebel forces have been supplied

ISIL gains territory near Turkish border through which rebel forces have been supplied

by WorldTribune Staff, May 29, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has launched its biggest offensive in Syria’s Aleppo province in two years and gained territory from rebel forces near the Turkish border. ISIL captured territory from Syrian rebels on May 28 and inched closer to a town on a supply route for […]