Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Marcus Wolf, “the man without a face”, infamous East German intelligence operative who once put a Communist spy into West German Chancellor Willy Brandt’s bed, has commented pithily on Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Wolf doubts Putin lived in Dresden for 15 years as liaison between the Soviet […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 7, 2017 The major media in the U.S. has been body-slammed again. This time, Britain’s The Sun Online beat the U.S. outlets to the punch by enlisting a body language expert to analyze the much-anticipated initial face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Body language expert […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 5, 2017 The United States will focus on defeating Islamic State (ISIS) and defer to Russia when the time comes to decide Syrian President Bashar Assad’s fate, a report said. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during a private State Department meeting last week that Russia is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A colonel in Ukraine’s armed forces has been killed in a car bombing in Kyiv that authorities are investigating as a “terrorist attack.” A Defense Ministry statement on the June 27 explosion identified the victim of the blast as Colonel Maksim Shapoval. Police said law enforcement […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 25, 2017 Russia has warned Norway that its hosting of a deployment of 330 U.S. Marines could lead to “escalated tensions” in the region. The Marines arrived in Norway in January and are based near the western city of Trondheim, 900 miles from the Russian border. Russia said it sees the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said the presence of U.S. forces in Syria was “illegal.” The Pentagon said a U.S. F-15 aircraft flying over Syrian territory fired on the Shaheed 129 drone after it displayed hostile intent and advanced on coalition forces on June 20. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 19, 2017 A day after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a Syrian warplane, Russia on June 19 warned that it would target any U.S.-led coalition jets and drones that are discovered “west of the Euphrates River.” On June 18, a U.S. F-18 Super Hornet shot down a Syrian SU-22 after […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Donald Trump says that an investigation touching on whether he tried to obstruct justice stems from what he asserts is a “phony story” about possible collusion between his campaign and Russia. Trump made the remark on Twitter on June 15, a day after The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 15, 2017 Email headline alerts for the weekly intelligence briefing by Geostrategy-Direct.com did not go out as scheduled on Tuesday, June 13, and the site has been down for multiple hours at a time since Saturday June 10, its editors reported. Geostrategy-Direct focuses its reporting on geopolitical hot zones such as […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty In 2013, former world chess champion and Russian opposition political activist Garry Kasparov emigrated from Russia to the United States. Since then, he has continued to be a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and has consistently warned the West that Putinism presents a global […]
