Special to WorldTribune.com A Marine veteran has filed a lawsuit after being banned from his daughter’s school for more than a year after he raised objections to the school’s pro-Islam curriculum. John Kevin Wood is asking a judge to remove the ban so he can watch his daughter graduate from La Plata High School in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh has dismissed a proposal by Russia and three OPEC members to freeze oil production as “ridiculous.” Zanganeh said on February 23 that the proposal by Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Qatar for crude oil producers to cap production at January […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey Israel is wisely keeping out of the fray in Syria, but it may be challenged all the same. There are more than two dozen state and non-state actors battling over the prostrate body of what used to be Syria, one of the artificial entities carved out in the Middle […]
Special to WorldTribune.com In a shot at the Obama administration, Iran supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on his countrymen to elect a parliament that will “stand up to world powers.” Iranians will vote in two elections of Feb. 26, one for a new parliament and the other for the Assembly of Experts, a body […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) jihadists beheaded 12 police officers in Sabratha, Libya on Feb. 24 after briefly taking over the city’s security headquarters. Taher al-Gharabili, head of Sabratha Military Council, told The Associated Press that ISIL gunmen “exploited a security vacuum” by deploying in the city center as the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com For Hillary Clinton, a picture is worth a thousand words – and about three thousand bucks. The Democratic presidential hopeful hit up West Coast elites for some more campaign cash on Feb. 22 with a slew of Los Angeles fundraisers. At one of the events, a $1,000 per-person fundraiser at a Studio […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussed America’s commitment to its “security partnership” with Egypt during a visit to Cairo on Feb. 20. “Dunford visited Cairo to demonstrate U.S. commitment to strengthening the security partnership between Egypt and the United States,” according to a U.S. Defense Department […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Italian government has given the U.S. the go-ahead to fly armed drones out of an American base in Sicily for missions against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Libya. The drones are based at the Sigonella naval air station in Sicily, which is also a NATO and Italian air […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Teheran’s detention of a businessman with dual Iranian-American citizenship may have a chilling effect on expatriates hoping to return to do business in post-sanctions Iran. Siamak Namazi, while visiting family in October, was detained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), according to a source who declined to be identified. Iranian authorities […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Authorities in northern Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region say a teenage Swedish girl who was being held by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militants has been rescued in a raid by Iraqi Kurdish special forces. A statement issued by officials in Iraq’s Kurdish region on […]
