Special to WorldTribune.com French warplanes on Nov. 8 bombed an oil supply center in eastern Syria held by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). “We intervened in Syria… yesterday evening with a strike on an oil supply center near Deir Ezzor on the border between Iraq and Syria,” French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told journalists at […]
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 Sol W. Sanders President Abdul Fatah Sisi is rapidly resuming Egypt’s role as leader of the Arab world, nosing out U.S. Mideast leadership under President Barrack Obama’s “leading from behind”. Initially snubbed by Obama after his military coup last year against the Morsi Islamicist government, Sisi has moved away from his military […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Egypt will purchase a pair of helicopter-carrying warships which France had built for Russia. France canceled what would have been the largest arms sale ever by a NATO state to Russia in protest after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. President Francois Hollande and Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi “have agreed on the principle […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Uwe Siemon-Netto The flood of Middle Eastern refugees into Europe exposes a fatal flaw of the current democratic system in the United States. The defect is the innate inability of the fast-paced American system to bring a long-drawn-out war against an unconventional enemy to a victorious conclusion. As Adelbert Weinstein, the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Europe has been flooded by over 350,000 Middle East migrants in 2015. “Since the beginning of the year 2,342 migrants have died in the Mediterranean, 2,326 in the Channel of Sicily,” said Federico Soda, director of the International Organization for Migration’s Coordinating Office for the Mediterranean in Rome. “In the last few […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Three Americans and a Briton who stopped a jihadist who had opened fire on a crowded train were presented France’s top honor on Aug. 24. French President Francois Hollande hailed the four men as heroes as he awarded them the Legion d’Honneur medal. “Your heroism should be an example and a source […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler St. Nazaire, FRANCE — As the high-speed TGV train from Paris slowed down coming into St. Nazaire passing the sprawling shipyard alongside, a little boy in in the seat in front of us became animated and exclaimed,”Look, Mama, there are the big warships!” The child was pointing to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A senior adviser to French President Francois Hollande reportedly said the rejection of the Iran nuclear agreement by the U.S. Congress could ultimately result in a better deal. Jacques Audibert, the senior diplomatic adviser to French President Francois Hollande, has since denied the report in Bloomberg View that was seen as a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler NEW YORK — A rhetorical tsunami followed the signing of the landmark nuclear limitation deal between Iran and six world powers in Vienna. On the one hand President Barack Obama and his tireless Secretary of State John Kerry presented a technically well-crafted plan which would supposedly keep the […]