by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2017 The Syrian regime, well aware of the battlefield effectiveness of Kurdish female soldiers, has formed a women’s battalion of its own to fight Islamic State (ISIS). Al-Masdar News, which is sympathetic to the Syrian regime, posted a video on Feb. 1 of several dozen women in combat fatigues and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2017 Nearly daily demonstrations from the left against President Donald Trump’s agenda and protests on college campuses against conservative speakers have become predictable. But why would liberals protest Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer? Apparently, he’s not doing enough to resist Trump and conservatives. Roughly 3,000 demonstrators gathered outside Schumer’s apartment building […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2017 Israel’s announcements of new settlement construction are hampering U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts at negotiated a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), a White House official said. The unnamed official told Jerusalem Post on Feb. 2 that Trump has warned Israel to stop its unilateral announcements […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 Proclaiming “we are the pro-life generation” and “we don’t need Planned Parenthood,” hundreds of thousands of millennials gathered in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 27 to participate in the 44th annual March for Life. Of the 600,000 people on hand, nearly 75 percent were millennials, according to a report by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 Iran-backed Houthi rebels who bombed a Saudi frigate may have thought they were attacking a U.S. vessel. U.S. defense officials told Fox News that the Houthi attack on Jan. 30 off the coast of Yemen may have been meant for an American warship. Those behind the attack “either thought […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority nations is supported by 49 percent of Americans and opposed by 41 percent, a new poll found. One-third of respondents in the Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Jan. 30-31 said the president’s executive order will definitely make the United States […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 Leftist demonstrators who set up camp outside the Supreme Court building were intent on protesting whoever President Donald Trump nominated to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia, a Republican senator said. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse said he went to the site and discovered what he called a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 2, 2017 Ineffective intelligence-sharing has allowed Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists to infiltrate Europe and establish a “launching pad” for attacks in the United States, a former CIA official said. The absence of a cohesive information-sharing strategy among European intelligence agencies exposes the U.S. to a greater risk of terrorist attacks, former […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 1, 2017 Former President Barack Obama’s failure to act more quickly on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election ultimately cost Hillary Clinton the presidency, some Clinton backers are now saying. “Clintonites feel that if Obama had come out early and forcefully with evidence of Russian interference in the campaign, and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 1, 2017 With the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump accomplished his goal of replacing Justice Antonin Scalia with someone “very much in the mold” of the conservative champion, analysts say. Trump on Jan. 31 chose Judge Gorsuch, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]
