Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey As in previous conflicts, Western civilization is being hampered in the war with radical Islam by widespread denial. The world has been at war for sixty-eight of the past hundred years. World War I lasted four years, World War II six years, the Cold War 44 years, and the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct The French capital was under siege again as a brazen, coordinated attack on six popular Parisian locations was carried out on Nov. 13 by what is almost certainly an Islamic terrorist group, probably the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). The attackers apparently acted in near […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Russia, Britain and several Western European nations sent airliners to Egypt on Oct. 9 to bring home thousands of tourists from the Sinai Peninsula amid an increased terror threat from Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Thousands of tourists were stranded at the southern Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh after foreign […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi is enjoying the West’s warm embrace as Cairo’s strategic importance in the Middle East comes more into focus amid failed states and the threat of terrorism. Sisi this week arrived in London for his first state visit to the United Kingdom since taking power in a coup […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has done it again: he has repeated what any historian of the Middle East knows, that the so-called Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Husseini, was a buddy of Adolph Hitler’s. Netanyahu has a terrible way of reminding the world of awful […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Scottish prosecutors have identified two Libyan nationals as suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The prosecutors are looking to U.S. and Scottish investigators to interview the suspects in Tripoli, but that is seen as unlikely in an unstable Libya. The two new suspects, who were […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct The head of Great Britain’s equivalent of the FBI says the threat from radicalized Islamist recruits is posing the highest threat in over a decade to British security. Andrew Parker, head of MI5, the UK’s domestic security, in remarks posted on the MI5 website, detailed his concerns: […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct UK Prime Minister David Cameron won a sweeping electoral victory for his Conservative Party this May but already three to four senior Tory politicians are seen as possibly maneuvering behind the scenes to replace him as Britain’s leading politician. Dr. Liam Fox, former UK defense chief, a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com France and the UK are calling on Russia to focus its air strikes on Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) instead of moderate rebels opposed to the Assad regime. Britain’s defense ministry said on Oct. 4 that a mere five percent of Russian strikes last week were aimed at ISIL targets. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a blunt address to the United Nations General Assembly, slammed the world body for its indifference to Iranian threats to destroy Israel. Netanyahu said that the Iran deal “doesn’t make peace more likely,” but by giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief the deal makes […]