Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Saudi King Abdullah, the oldest leader in the Arab world, is preparing to undergo surgery. The Saudi royal court said Abdullah, believed to be 95, would be sent to a hospital in Riyad for another back operation. The court said the surgery was related to two operations the king […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — The United States and South Korea stood on the brink of a brave new world on Friday with a triumphant state visit to Washington by South Korea’s President Lee Myung-Bak marking the passage by both houses of the U.S. Congress of the much-delayed Korea-U.S. Free Trade […]
NICOSIA — Syria has launched its largest military operation yet along the border of Lebanon in search for Sunni insurgents. More than 5,000 Syrian troops, supported by main battle tanks, stormed the border with Lebanon in an operation against defectors. Officials said the Syrian Army force bombarded the northern Lebanese resort of Zabadani, regarded as […]
GAZA CITY — Hamas has reported increased Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle operations over the Gaza Strip. Officials said the Hamas regime has been monitoring Israeli UAVs over the Gaza Strip in mid-October. They said the Israel Air Force has deployed additional UAVs since the announcement of the prisoner exchange with Hamas on Oct. 13. “They […]
Whenever the left-wing media wants to conjure up an image of Republican failure and incompetence, they point to Hurricane Katrina? and the days it took the Federal Emergency Management Agency? (FEMA) to respond in any effective manner. Forget for the moment the fact that President Bush and his team were hampered in their efforts to […]
By Sol Sanders The cacophony from the left [and its politically correct mainstream media mirror] calling for amity, negotiation, compromise and immediate action to solve the current crisis is not only hypocritical and insincere but ahistorical. The American Republic was born and nurtured in conflict, not only on the battlefield but also in the world […]
By John Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are stalking Somalia and riding further a field into the impoverished Horn of Africa. Drought, famine, militias and global indifference plague this parched region at the mercy of weather, failed states, and donor fatigue. Today, over thirteen million people face a deteriorating food […]
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August 16, 2011 – Tunisia moves to stop smuggling of diesel, gasoline to Libya August 1, 2011 – Rights group warns of more atrocities by Sudan July 31, 2011 – ‘Enormous’ amount of air travel to, from Somalia concerns U.S. July 29, 2011 – Morocco signs U.S. energy firm to survey Atlantic Ocean bloc July 27, 2011 – Moroccan U.S. C-130 transport goes down in […]
August 19, 2011 – Response to a critic who doesn’t see China’s military growth as dangerous August 16, 2011 – N. Korean military document ties ‘Captain’ Kim Jong-Un to provocations against South August 11, 2011 – China building 3 aircraft carriers, heads for superpower status August 9, 2011 – N. Korea has 165,000 ‘terror troops’ trained to paralyze South’s command structure August 4, […]