Erdogan threatens Europe: Pay up or face new flood of migrants

Erdogan threatens Europe: Pay up or face new flood of migrants

by WorldTribune Staff, July 26, 2016 Turkey will open its border and allow a wave of migrants to flood into Europe unless the European Union pays the entire balance it promised Ankara for taking in millions of refugees, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. “Ask them [the EU]. Did you pay? But Turkey still hosts […]

New wave of migrant violence hits Germany in Ansbach and Stuttgart

New wave of migrant violence hits Germany in Ansbach and Stuttgart

by WorldTribune Staff, July 25, 2016 Four violent attacks in the past week have Germans increasingly questioning the government’s taking in of over 1 million Middle Eastern migrants and refugees. A Syrian asylum seeker who wounded 15 people when he detonated a bomb outside a music festival in Ansbach on July 25 had pledged allegiance […]

Arrests in Turkey surpass 13,000 as crackdown focuses on journalists, academics

Arrests in Turkey surpass 13,000 as crackdown focuses on journalists, academics

by WorldTribune Staff, July 25, 2016 Turkey is arresting, firing or suspending scores of journalists, school teachers and university heads as some 13,000 people have now been ensnared in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup dragnet. Authorities issued detention warrants for 42 journalists, local media say, as part of an inquiry into the failed coup on […]

Iran destroys 100,000 ‘morally harmful’ satellite dishes

Iran destroys 100,000 ‘morally harmful’ satellite dishes

by WorldTribune Staff, July 25, 2016 Iran has destroyed 100,000 satellite dishes and receivers that the government said were “morally harmful” to society. “The truth is that most satellite channels… deviate the society’s morality and culture,” Gen. Mohammad Reza Naghdi, the head of Iran’s Basij militia, was quoted as saying by Iranian state media. Owning […]

Tehran confirms arrest of another Iranian-American

Tehran confirms arrest of another Iranian-American

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran has confirmed the arrest of an Iranian-American who was visiting family in the country, the latest in a series of arrests of dual nationals by the Islamic republic over the past year. Iran’s semiofficial ISNA news agency on July 24 cited Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi, […]

Iran blames IAEA for leak of secret side deal document

Iran blames IAEA for leak of secret side deal document

by WorldTribune Staff, July 25, 2016 Iran accused the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of leaking details of a secret side deal in last year’s nuclear agreement that will lift restrictions on the Islamic republic’s nuclear program before the accord expires. Iran said on July 25 that it will lodge a formal protest with the […]

Turkex: Time for NATO to wake up and smell the coffee; Moscow was the winner in coup drama

Turkex: Time for NATO to wake up and smell the coffee; Moscow was the winner in coup drama

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs It is unsurprising that the world should be incredulous at the explanations given by the Turkish Government as to the origins, sponsors, and actions of the putsch which was attempted against it on the night of July 15-16, 2016. Indeed, the great difficulty […]

American volunteer who joined Kurdish militia dies fighting ISIL

American volunteer who joined Kurdish militia dies fighting ISIL

by WorldTribune Staff, July 24, 2016 An American who volunteered to fight alongside a Kurdish militia against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Syria has been killed in action. Levi Jonathan Shirley was killed in fighting on July 14 as the Kurds fought to liberate the city of Manbij from ISIL. Shirley is […]

ISIL attack on Shi’ite protest rally in Kabul kills at least 80

ISIL attack on Shi’ite protest rally in Kabul kills at least 80

by WorldTribune Staff, July 24, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) on July 23 targeted a Shi’ite protest rally in Kabul, Afghanistan with twin bombings that killed at least 80 people and wounded more than 230. Thousands of Persian-speaking Hazara Shi’ites had been demonstrating against the route of a planned multi-million-dollar power line […]

U.S. military, European allies uneasy about Obama-Kerry talks with Putin

U.S. military, European allies uneasy about Obama-Kerry talks with Putin

by WorldTribune Staff, July 24, 2016 U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are once again naively banking on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s good faith in the U.S.’s latest proposal for cooperation against jihadist groups in Syria, critics said. U.S. military and intelligence officials said Obama and Kerry are being set up […]