Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranian state media have reported that a jailed and ailing Iranian citizen who had been a graduate student in Texas has been released after more than five years in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. The government-owned IRAN daily newspaper quoted the lawyer for Omid Kokabee as saying […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 29, 2016 Egypt’s government has approved a draft law making female circumcision a felony offense. The law, drafted on Aug. 28, calls for punishing anyone involved in female circumcision, better known as female genital mutilation (FGM), by five to seven years in prison instead of the current penalty of a maximum […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 29, 2016 A member of Iran’s team that negotiated last summer’s nuclear deal with world powers has been arrested on suspicion of spying. At an Aug. 28 new conference, judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei called the individual a “spy who had infiltrated the nuclear team.” Ejei said the suspect was released […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 29, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing attack in Yemen on Aug. 29 that left more than 60 people dead. Dozens more were wounded after a terrorist drove a car packed with explosives into an army facility in the southern coast city of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2016 Turkey confirmed its F-16s launched airstrikes on both Kurdish and Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) targets in Syria on Aug. 27. Turkish security sources said the strikes targeted U.S.-backed Kurdish YPG militia, which makes up the majority of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The Jarablus Military Council, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2016 The Obama administration’s $400 million cash payment, delivered to Teheran on the same day American hostages were released, may be unprecedented in U.S. history. Historians had to go back to 1848 to find an incident that could even come close. The Obama administration “has been ambiguous from the start” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2016 Iran said that a cyberattack on two of its petrochemical plants is not related to recent fires at the facilities. A military official said on Aug. 27 that malware was discovered and removed from two of its petrochemical complexes, Reuters reported. “In periodical inspection of petrochemical units, a type […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 26, 2016 The United States has deployed AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopters to Libya to join U.S. operations against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), begun this month. The SuperCobras, the Marines’ twin-engine gunships, carried out operations against ISIL targets in Sirte in the past few days, according to U.S. Africa […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty By Farangis Najibullah and Mohammad Reza Yazdanpanah Iranian fans have taken to Instagram and other social media to demand the release of Amir Tataloo, a popular and controversial rapper arrested on charges of spreading depravity among youth. “Free Tataloo!” and “He Is Not Guilty!” say dozens […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 26, 2016 The rising unpopularity in Iran of the nuclear deal with world powers has helped spur the re-emergence of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Islamic Republic. When his tenure ended in 2013, the former Iranian president was “deeply unpopular at home, roundly blamed for a major decline in both domestic prosperity […]
