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‘Not on my watch’: South Dakota governor vows to defend Mount Rushmore

By World Tribune on June 24, 2020 Americas, Exclusives, Stateside, Top Story, U.S., World Links, World Tribune

by WorldTribune Staff, June 24, 2020 The leftist mob will not get to Mount Rushmore, South Dakota’s governor has vowed. “Not on my watch,” Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, said in response to a question regarding the possibility of the rioters targeting the famed sculpture featuring Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham […]

Art collectors in West are helping to fund ISIL

By Editor One on February 28, 2016 BB Middle East, Exclusives, Iraq, Mideast, Syria, Terrorism, Top Stories, World Links

Special to WorldTribune.com The illicit trade of antiquities in the West is helping to fund the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) terror organization. The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria has put a dent in ISIL’s other funding streams, so the jihadists increasingly rely on the sale of artifacts pilfered from areas under […]