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Syria tops agenda in talks between Hagel, Turkish defense chief »

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel welcomed Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz and Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmet Davutoglu during an honor cordon at the Pentagon on May 17.  /DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Turkey and the United States have conducted a review of defense and military cooperation. The two countries discussed existing and new projects during a meeting in Washington on…

Incompetence? Not such a big deal to the Ruling Class »

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Wesley Pruden There’s an immeasurably deep cleavage between left and right in America, illustrated vividly in the way Americans regard the Benghazi scandal and outrage. It’s in the DNA. Democrats generally and liberals…

Inside China: Tough talking Xi Jinping goes easy on rampant PLA corruption »

Gen. Xu Caihou, left, and Chinese President Hu Jintao at banquet marking the 63th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on Sept. 29, 2012.  /Feng Li/Getty Images AsiaPac

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com After becoming simultaneously General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission at the 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress last November, Xi Jinping put it as…

U.S. moves ‘assets and personnel’ near Libya in case they are ‘called upon’ »

Pentagon spokesman George Little.

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has reported the preparation of troops to intervene in Libya. The Defense Department said the U.S. military has sent troops near the coast of the…

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Key commander, 30 other Hizbullah fighters killed in Syria battle with Sunni rebels »

Hizbullah members carry the coffin of Fadi Al Jazar during his funeral in southern Beirut on May 20.  /AFP

Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — A senior Hizbullah commander has been killed in heavy fighting in Syria. Arab diplomatic…

Morsi orders troops into Sinai after abduction of officers »

Egyptian border police, angry at the kidnapping of their colleagues, have shut down crossings into Gaza and Israel.  /AP

Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has begun sending thousands of troops into the turbulent Sinai Peninsula. Officials said…

Virginia’s Cuccinelli battles Democrats, and the Democrat media »

Ken Cuccinelli.

Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The Washington Post apparently doesn’t care how ridiculous it looks as it embarks…

Chronicling thirty years of upheaval in Afghanistan’s Garmser district »

U.S. Marines in Garmser.

Special to WorldTribune.com By Brian M Downing Carter Malkasian, War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the…

Syria tops agenda in talks between Hagel, Turkish defense chief »

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel welcomed Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz and Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmet Davutoglu during an honor cordon at the Pentagon on May 17.  /DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Turkey and the United States have conducted a review of defense and military cooperation.…

U.S. pays Israeli firm to supply Arab militaries »

Vision Systems International's Night Vision Cueing and Display Aviator's Night Vision Imaging System.

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — In an unprecedented step, an Israeli subsidiary has been contracted by the United States…

Palestinian Authority arrests journalists critical of Abbas despite ‘guaranteed’ rights »

Palestinian journalists in Gaza City protest the arrest of West Bank journalist Yousef al-Shayab, 4 April 2012.  /Mohammed Asad/APA images

Special to WorldTribune.com RAMALLAH — The Palestinian Authority, despite appeals from Western donors, continues its crackdown on the media…

The game of chicken over Syria with dangerous consequences »

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meet in Moscow on May 7.  /Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

Sol W. Sanders   That loud noise you hear now coming out of the Middle East is the sound…

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Creative diplomacy needed as conflict in Syria threatens its neighbors »

John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Decrying a rising death toll and an escalation of violence, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly called yet again for progress towards a political transition to defuse Syria’s civil war, now in its third year. Though the resolution strongly condemns the Syrian government of Bashar Assad for its increased use…

A rebel fighter fires an anti-aircraft gun during a regime airstrike on Tel Rafat, a village north of Aleppo.  /Reuters

Incompetence? Not such a big deal to the Ruling Class »

Wesley Pruden There’s an immeasurably deep cleavage between left and right in America, illustrated vividly in the way Americans regard the Benghazi scandal and outrage. It’s in the DNA. Democrats generally and liberals in particular can’t understand what the noise from Benghazi is about, though they’re willing to concede that the deaths of the American…

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Welcome to Soviet America! (Was my 1975 1-act play prophetic?) »

Lev Navrozov “Lev, this is Julie. Do you remember me?” The voice on the phone sounded familiar. She went on: “Almost forty years ago, I believe the year was 1975, I went to see your play ‘Welcome to Soviet America!’ at Carnegie Hall. It was a one-actor play, in which you played all the roles,…

Life and Look magazines herald the 50th Anniver­sary of the USSR, 1967.

The game of chicken over Syria with dangerous consequences »

Sol W. Sanders   That loud noise you hear now coming out of the Middle East is the sound of a frighteningly dangerous game of chicken between Russia and Israel [and inferentially the U.S.]. Last minute pleas by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Soviet President Vladimir Putin delivered at Sochi on the Black Sea…

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meet in Moscow on May 7.  /Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

Political thugocracy at the top: Several special prosecutors should be appointed »

Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama is facing a perfect storm of scandals, cover-ups and criminality that threatens to sweep him from power. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first Watergate hearings. They eventually brought down President Nixon, forcing him to resign. Mr. Obama is the liberal Nixon — a corrupt chief executive, who…

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An undated photo released on April 28 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visiting the Haedanghwa Health Complex with wife Ri Sol-Ju.  /European Pressphoto Agency

Kim Jong-Un shifts focus to economy from military escalation »

Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un who mobilized the military and threatened U.S. allies with Weapons of Mass Destruction for the past months has shifted his…

Inside China: Tough talking Xi Jinping goes easy on rampant PLA corruption »

Gen. Xu Caihou, left, and Chinese President Hu Jintao at banquet marking the 63th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on Sept. 29, 2012.  /Feng Li/Getty Images AsiaPac

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com After becoming simultaneously General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission at the 18th…

Russian exercise near Georgia redirected to Syria after Israeli strike »

Russian Black Sea Fleet amphibious landing ship Novocherkassk.

Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com A large-scale military drill was ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to…

N. Korean paratroopers exercise near China to block defections; border villages demolished »

Chinese soldiers on patrol near the North Korean border.  /AFP

Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com North Korean troops have demolished villages near the border with China and forcibly relocated residents to prevent…

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Brits balk at $150 million price tag on Joint Strike Fighter »

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The Joint Strike Fighter, designed as a low-budget fighter-jet, has now exceeded $150 million per unit. Britain,…

Energy firms mapping Kurdistan’s topography by satellite »

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Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan has undergone satellite topography mapping in the search for energy. Canada’s WesternZagros…

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meet in Moscow on May 7.  /Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

The game of chicken over Syria with dangerous consequences »

Sol W. Sanders   That loud noise you hear now coming out of the Middle East is the sound of a frighteningly dangerous game of chicken between Russia and Israel…

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