Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey Predictions that events in Saudi Arabia will be key to regional developments in 2016 have much merit. A number of analyses and New Year predictions have centered lately on what events might happen during 2016 involving Saudi Arabia. Certainly, several recent events might lead to such conclusions, to wit: […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey The chaotic, not to say anarchic situation in much of the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region is often compared in complexity to the game of chess. It is nothing like chess, which has set rules and is governed strictly by rational calculation. No, the situation is much more like […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs [Editor’s note: The following full-length report by Yossef Bodansky details Russia’s unambiguous response to the growing jihadist threat in Syria and the Middle East that has remarkably been aided and abetted at several junctures by Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia […]
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 By Sheda Vasseghi It appears the Mainstream Media – not Donald Trump – “tripped up” again regarding the identity of the Iranian peoples. In a Sept. 3rd article by The Washington Post, Sullivan and Weigel claim that the Republican candidate Donald Trump “appeared to mistake [Islamic Republic of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards] the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Islamic State of Iraq and Levant has been redeploying fighters for the war in northern Syria. Opposition sources said ISIL has withdrawn hundreds of fighters from strongholds to battle Kurdish militias along the Syrian border with Turkey. They said the pullout was seen around such cities as Aleppo and Damascus. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has disclosed military assistance to the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq. The State Department said the U.S. military has airlifted thousands of weapons, mortars and other munitions to KRG forces, called Peshmerga. Officials said Washington has also overseen the training of Kurdish troops in northern Iraq […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has banned Kurdish leaders who fought Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. Two U.S. lawmakers have urged the administration of President Barack Obama to drop the ban against leaders of the Democratic Union Party of Syria. Reps. Chris Van Hollen and Marsha Blackburn said the Democratic Union, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — The Kurdistan Regional Government plans to increase the capacity of its crude oil pipeline. Officials said KRG would increase pipeline capacity to 400,000 barrels per day by early 2015, Middle East Newsline reported. They said the pipeline, with a current output of 280,000 barrels per day, would pump oil to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs The modern Arab State is gone, rejected by the vast majority of the populace. Libya, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon are no more, and Jordan and Yemen are not far behind. In their place there have emerged entities based on […]