Special to WorldTribune.com The son of Hizbullah’s former operations commander has been detained on allegations he worked as a mole for the CIA and Israeli intelligence. According to Lebanese and Syrian news reports on Dec. 29, Mustafa Mughniyeh was being interrogated by Hizbullah’s counterintelligence apparatus. Related: Israeli air-to-ground missiles kills top Hizbullah commander in Syria’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Dr. Willy Lam, EastAsiaIntel.com Efforts by the Xi Jinping administration to suppress embarrassing stories about his career in Fujian Province in the late 1980s and 1990s were behind two of the most brazen overseas acts of Chinese state-security agents. In October this year, four Chinese state-security agents kidnapped Hong Kong-based publisher […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Israeli-Russian strategic cooperation, already good, was markedly improving in early October 2015. The primary impediment to this improvement had been the incessant pressure put by the U.S. Barack Obama White House on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Consequently, time […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The director-general of Israel’s foreign ministry, in an unprecedented interview granted to a Saudi news outlet, commented on Iran’s fomenting of “anarchy” in the Middle East, red lines in Syria and common interests with Arab states. In the interview with Saudi-owned Elaph online newspaper, Dore Gold said Iran is attempting to gain […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Aug. 11, 2015: The Obama administration made a “willful decision” to arm terror organizations in Syria that led to the rise of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) chief Michael Flynn said. Flynn said that, despite warnings from top officials, President Barack Obama’s decision to […]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner May 17, 2015: Justice was served. On Friday, a jury sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death. After diligently and meticulously examining the evidence, all 12 jurors came to the same conclusion: The Muslim terrorist deserves the ultimate punishment. Yet, for Massachusetts’ liberal elites the sentence is a mark of shame […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Nine Iranian Christians were arrested while attending church on Christmas Day in the city of Shiraz. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reported that the Christians were taken into custody as the church was raided by plain-clothes officers from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security. The NCRI said government officials […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Syrian forces are advancing rapidly against both anti-Assad rebels and Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) positions with support from Iranian officers, Hizbullah fighters and Russian warplanes, reports say. On Dec. 29, government forces and their allies captured a key southern military base from Brigade 82 rebels in the town of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islam has a PR problem and two days after Christmas, two major leaders on opposite side of the yawning Sunni-Shia schism addressed it openly. Iranian President Hassan Rohani in a Dec. 27 address at an Islamic conference in Teheran said “it is our greatest duty today to correct the image of Islam […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs BUENOS AIRES — Market-oriented President Mauricio Macri of Argentina moved almost immediately after he was sworn in to office on Dec. 10, to radically transform the national economy and ethos, which had been held largely in stasis under either the Perónistas or the military for much of the […]