Special to WorldTribune.com The terror group U.S. President Barack Obama once called the “junior varsity” has moved up to become “a bunch of killers with good social media,” according to the president. At a Nov. 22 press conference in Malaysia that concluded a nine-day trip abroad, Obama said the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Police in Greece say it is “nearly impossible” to determine if jihadists are among the wave of migrants flooding Europe. “We don’t really know who is coming through,” one police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said. The admission by Greek police comes after it was confirmed that a second Islamic State […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The French special forces unit that carried out a stunning pre-dawn raid on a terror cell in Paris on Nov. 18 took a page out of Israel’s playbook, the French unit’s commander said. The raid in the Saint Denis suburb of Paris included some 100 commandos, 5,000 rounds of live fire, dozens […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Again the forces of terror and hate have attacked Paris. Again, and for the second time in a year, we stand in solidarity and weep for the victims. And as the barbarity of the Grim Reaper of Jihadi terror swept across Paris on a Friday […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The same Islamist terrorists who attacked Paris are trying to destroy Israel and those who don’t acknowledge that are hypocrites, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Nov. 19. Netanyahu made the comment after a pair of fatal terror attacks on Israelis in Tel Aviv and Gush Etzion that claimed five lives. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com French President Francois Hollande reportedly will urge U.S. President Barack Obama to escalate U.S. attacks against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), which Hollande called “the biggest terrorist factory the world has ever seen.” Hollande, who will meet with Obama on Nov. 24, is expected to make clear to Obama the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com This week’s Asia edition of Time magazine features the cover line, “What It Takes to Forgive a Killer.” Thinking the editors had had time to do a cover on the massacres in Paris, I discovered cloying, patronizing interviews with friends and relatives of the nine African-Americans shot and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Israel and the United States are responsible for the terror attacks in Paris as Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is the two allies’ “infantry unit,” the leader of Iran’s Basij paramilitary force said. “ISIL is the infantry unit of the U.S. and the usurper Zionist regime since they don’t have fighters […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Reports from a northern Paris suburb say at least two suspects sought in connection with the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in France have been killed and seven others arrested during a raid on an apartment. Police sources say Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged mastermind of last week’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com France was set to deploy its lone aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf on Nov. 18 while Russia stepped up its attacks on Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) stronghold in Raqqa, Syria. The escalation of military operations by France and Russia are seen filling the void left by the United […]