Special to WorldTribune.com AMMAN — The West could examine the feasibility of a military operation against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. A senior member of the U.S. Senate raised the prospect of military intervention in Syria. Sen. John McCain, ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, called on the U.S. military to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Western embassies have urged their nationals to limit travel in Lebanon. Several Western embassies warned that Europeans and Americans could be the target of abduction in Lebanon. They also urged Westerners to avoid parts of the country influenced by the revolt in neighboring Syria. “We advise against all but essential […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Saudi Crown Prince Sultan has died, moving his brother Nayef in position to imminently succeed the king of the Gulf Cooperation Council. On Oct. 22, a Saudi palace statement announced Sultan’s death in the United States. Sultan, believed to be 86 and close to the United States, has been […]
Special to WorldTribune.com from Geostrategy-Direct.com WASHINGTON — A month after denying the threat, the United States has expanded its operation to find the missing surface-to-air missile arsenal of ousted Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi. The administration of President Barack Obama has approved a $30 million allocation to track and intercept SAM systems smuggled out of Libya. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — Yogi Berra may not have had United States-North Korean talks in mind when he remarked, “This is like deja vu all over again,” but the phrase would seem to catch the spirit of the dialogue coming up Monday and Tuesday in Geneva. While North Korea evinces […]
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 […]
NICOSIA — Islamic insurgents are targeting officers loyal to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Opposition sources acknowledged that scores of Syrian security officers have been killed in such cities as Dura, Hama and Homs since April. They said Islamic insurgents have established networks that identify and target officers loyal to Assad in Sunni […]
By Jeffrey Kuhner America’s economy is in free-fall. Growth is anemic. The stock market is collapsing. Real unemployment — combining the high jobless rate with rampant underemployment — is higher than 16 percent. Manufacturing is dead. Deficits, debt and government spending are at record levels. Our credit rating has been downgraded for the first time in history. […]
Imagine two lines on a graph — one zigs and zags, another rises rapidly. They could represent two current unsettling world currents. The first would chart U.S. efforts to eradicate Islamic terrorists, on Afghanistan and Iraq battlefields but also a wider intellectual war against political Islam from Casablanca to Zamboanga. The second would trace a […]
GAZA CITY — In a reversal of more than three decades of smuggling, Palestinian operators have been using some of the 1,500 tunnels that connect the Gaza Strip with the Sinai Peninsula to export goods to Egypt. Palestinian sources said the latest flow stemmed from the flood of cheap goods sent from Israel to the […]