Special to WorldTribune.com LIGNET.com Iran is caught in a Persian paradox. As a fanatical Shiite Muslim regime, the ruling mullahs in Tehran are watching anxiously as an equally fanatical Sunni Muslim terrorist army threatens to overthrow Iran’s Shiite ally in Iraq. However, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which has put the Iraqi army […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Life was just as brutal for the Yazidis … under former dictator Saddam Hussein as it is now under the threat from Islamic militants, contradicting recent claims about the former Iraqi government. The plight of the Yazidis attracted international attention in recent days as thousands sought refuge from the Islamic State of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bernard Kerik, Huffington Post Today we face a far greater threat than we faced on and in the aftermath of 9/11: a self- proclaimed group that refers to itself as the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant — ISIL. Let me be clear… ISIL is not a terror group, but a barbaric […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Washington Times At the White House on Saturday morning — less than 48 hours after authorizing airstrikes against Islamist militants and humanitarian air drops to save the lives of trapped Iraqi civilians — President Obama blamed his predecessor, George W. Bush, for the absence of American troops in Iraq and rejected the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ISIS militants took sledgehammers to Iraqi tombstones – smashing them to pieces. The rebels, who are members of the Islamic State terror group, were filmed attacking centuries-old graves in the north-west city of Mosul in Ninevah province. Donning balaclavas and black coats, they swung sledgehammers into the tombs, causing pieces of dust […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times Senior Obama administration officials briefed members of Congress on the drive by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant to seize control of Iraq. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, outlined for senators the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon President Barack Obama has authorized targeted killings of the leaders of the Al Qaida offshoot led by Abu Bakr al Baghdadi using drone strikes or special operations, as the Iraqi terrorist on Tuesday urged jihadists to conduct worldwide attacks. A U.S. official familiar with internal Obama administration […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen A few questions for President Barack Obama. At your press conference, you said, “It is in our national security interest not to see an all-out civil war in Iraq.” If that is the case, why did you withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011? Were you motivated by […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Last weekend Barack Obama played his 175th and 176th rounds of golf as president. He played first at Sunnylands, the famously private course on the Rancho Mirage, California estate of the late billionaire Walter Annenberg. Obama next played at Porcupine Creek, the equally private course on the nearby estate of the very-much-alive […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Address by then President George W. Bush on May 1, 2007 to CENTCOM Coalition Conference MacDill Air Force Base Tampa, Florida The other option was to pull back from the capital, before the Iraqis could defend themselves against these radicals and extremists and death squads and killers. That risked turning Iraq into […]