Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen PARIS — An estimated 50,000 Iranian exiles and supporters from Europe and North America are here to remind the world that no cooperation with the brutal, expansionist regime in Tehran can possibly advance Western interests. This annual gathering of MeK (People’s Mujahedin of Iran), an Iranian resistance group, was […]
Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times The Al Qaida offshoot that has taken over large parts of Iraq this month has launched a global propaganda campaign threatening attacks on Americans if the United States intervenes in the conflict. … The campaign, in both English and Arabic, is being watched closely by U.S. and allied […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon The United States is opposing a new draft treaty submitted to the United Nations last week by China and Russia that seeks legally binding curbs on weapons in space amid concerns that both states are secretly building space arms. The draft treaty — updated from a 2008 […]
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Syrian and Iraqi terrorist forces obtained significant numbers of tanks, trucks, and U.S.-origin Humvees in recent military operations in Iraq and those arms are being shipped to rebels in Syria, according to U.S. officials. U.S. intelligence agencies reported this week that photos of the equipment transfers were posted online by […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times Russia’s recent missile developments represent a “material breach” of its obligations under the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a senior House Republican said Wednesday. There is no doubt — and I mean no doubt — that Russia’s actions transcend mere violations and constitute a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Four Russian strategic bombers triggered U.S. air defense systems while conducting practice bombing runs near Alaska this week, with two of the Tu-95 Bear H aircraft coming within 50 miles of the California coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) confirmed Wednesday. … Davis said the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Russian spies ‘tricked’ U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden into asking Moscow for asylum by posing as diplomats after spending six years targeting him, a former major in the KGB has claimed. Boris Karpichkov, who fled Russia after 15 years serving with the KGB said Snowden had been identified as a potential defector as […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Current House intelligence and defense legislation now before Congress is seeking to block U.S. intelligence officials from working for Chinese-linked companies. … Two amendments now part of the fiscal 2015 intelligence and defense authorization bills [also] target China’s Huawei Technologies, a company linked by the U.S. government […]
Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times The Haqqani Network, the terrorist group that the U.S. command in Afghanistan says is its most formidable enemy — worse than the Taliban or Al Qaida — has operated for a dozen years across the border in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area with little to fear other than sporadic drone strikes. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen Is the election of a pro-business, pro-American, growth-oriented prime minister in the world’s largest democracy good news or bad news for the world’s oldest democracy? We in that oldest democracy are currently governed by the Democrats, a party that has more in common with the defeated Congress party in […]