by WorldTribune Staff, May 11, 2017 After recent gains in Mosul’s north, Iraqi government forces are squeezing Islamic State (ISIS) into an ever smaller area and hope to liberate the city “within days,” reports said. Iraqi Lt. Gen. Othman al-Ghanimi told the BBC he hoped ISIS would be defeated in Mosul before the Islamic holy […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 11, 2017 Saudi Arabia said it plans to build a massive entertainment city featuring cultural and sporting venues as well as a safari park and a Six Flags theme park. The 334-square kilometer (129-square miles) city will be about the same size as Las Vegas. According to a statement released by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2017 Some 5,000 ethnic Uighurs from China’s western Xinjiang province are fighting in Syria, the Syrian ambassador to China said. Ambassador Imad Moustapha told Reuters on the sidelines of a business forum on May 8 that while some of the Uighurs were fighting with Islamic State (ISIS), most were fighting […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2017 Just when it looked like President Donald Trump was learning to play nice with Washington officialdom, a.k.a., “The Swamp”, he riveted the nation by firing FBI Director James Comey on May 9. In any corporation or government, there is nothing like a high-profile firing to put the entire work […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump has given the Pentagon the go-ahead to arm Syrian Kurdish fighters in the fight to drive Islamic State (ISIS) from its stronghold at Raqqa. The green light was given just one week before Turkey’s president will visit the White House. Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2017 President Donald Trump on May 9 fired FBI Director James Comey, saying he concurred with the Justice Department that Comey was no longer “able to effectively lead the Bureau.” “You are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately,” the president’s letter to Comey said. “How the mighty have […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2017 North Korea’s state-run media called on South Koreans voting on May 9 to ban conservatives from ever taking power again as leftist candidate Moon Jae-In claimed victory at the end of the day. “South Koreans should judge the puppet group of conservatives as accomplices” with impeached President Park Geun-Hye, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2017 French President-elect Emmanuel Macron is a “globalist” and an “open promoter of multiculturalism” who does not consider Islamism a national threat, a French journalist and author said. “During the cold war with the Soviet Union, they were called ‘Useful Idiots,’ ” Yves Mamou wrote for Gatestone Institute on May […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2017 Millennials don’t care for the man in the Oval Office, but they seem to support major parts of his agenda, according to a Harvard poll. They also share President Donald Trump’s disdain for the media, said John Della Volpe, polling director at Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 8, 2017 The conservative candidate is making a last-minute comeback in a bitter presidential election showdown in South Korea. The latest polls show conservative candidate Hong Joon-Pyo surging, according to media reports in Seoul and the Wall Street Journal. “About 20 percent of the electorate is still undecided, and an upset […]
