Christian genocide: The U.S. White House and State Department remain stubbornly silent

Christian genocide: The U.S. White House and State Department remain stubbornly silent

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Among the many anomalies of the Obama Administration’s foreign policy, none appear so anachronistic as its refusal to label the persecution and annihilation of Christians in the Middle East as genocide. Granted that the term has been too often thrown around carelessly, used incorrectly as a synonym for […]

ISIL fighter from Virginia asks Kurdish captors to stop filming

ISIL fighter from Virginia asks Kurdish captors to stop filming

Special to WorldTribune.com Kurdish peshmerga forces posted video of a camera-shy American fighter for Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) who was captured near the Iraqi town of Sinjar. Upon his capture, the man identified as 27-year-old Muhammad Jamal Amin, originally from Virginia, is said to have voluntarily defected from ISIL. He claimed to have […]

Report: ISIL sex slaves forced to use contraceptives

Report: ISIL sex slaves forced to use contraceptives

Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) forces female captives to use contraception to ensure they do not become pregnant and can be passed among jihadists as sex slaves. The New York Times, which interviewed more than three dozen Yazidi women who escaped from the terror organization, cited a gynecologist who examined […]

ISIL commander reported on life support after U.S. strike

ISIL commander reported on life support after U.S. strike

Special to WorldTribune.com A top Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) commander is said to be “clinically dead” after being wounded in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike earlier this month. Omar al-Shishani, the red-bearded terrorist known as Omar the Chechen, has been “clinically dead” for several days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on March […]

Hamas hijacks Israeli TV station during rocket attack

Hamas hijacks Israeli TV station during rocket attack

Special to WorldTribune.com As its jihadists fired rockets into Israel, Hamas broke into Israel’s Channel Two TV on March 11 and broadcast four minutes of terrorist propaganda. The television broadcast was hijacked at the precise moment of the rocket launches, which caused no casualties. Hamas broke into a live satellite broadcast and showed footage featuring […]

UN report: ISIL attracting fighters, expanding control in Libya

UN report: ISIL attracting fighters, expanding control in Libya

Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has capitalized on the chaos in Libya to recruit a large number of jihadists and expand its area of control, according to a United Nations report. UN sanctions monitors, in their annual report to the UN Security Council, said ISIL now claims to be the […]

Taylor Force remembered

Taylor Force remembered

Special to WorldTribune.com Taylor Force, the American military veteran murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Israel on March 8, was remembered as a “good, good man” who left a legacy of service. A native of Lubbock, Texas, Force was a graduate of West Point, a U.S. Army Field Artillery officer who served in Afghanistan and […]

Egypt finds Gaza smuggling tunnels big enough for trucks

Egypt finds Gaza smuggling tunnels big enough for trucks

Special to WorldTribune.com Egyptian security forces have discovered smuggling tunnels connecting Gaza to Sinai that are large enough to drive trucks through. Egyptian officials believe the tunnels are the source of weapons being used in Sinai by the affiliate of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Most of the weapons were smuggled into Gaza […]

ISIL ‘secretary of defense’ said to be alive but badly wounded In Syria

ISIL ‘secretary of defense’ said to be alive but badly wounded In Syria

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A top Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militant commander who U.S. officials said was “likely” killed by air strikes last week was actually only badly wounded, Syrian observers and activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of observers within […]

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