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 Italian police last month detained a convicted terrorist who was hiding among asylum seekers on a boat from Libya. Police in Sicily confirmed that they detained Ben Nasr Mehdi, a Tunisian who was first arrested in Italy in November 2007 and was expelled from the country after his release from prison. Mehdi […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The political arm of the Libya Dawn faction which controls Tripoli has threatened to ship hundreds of thousands of migrants to Europe unless Europe recognizes it as Libya’s legitimate government. The threat came from officials of the National Salvation Government, affiliated with Libya’s General National Congress, according to the UK’s Telegraph. “We […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi said the panel is not on a political witch hunt against Hillary Clinton but is determined to get to the truth of what happened when four Americans were killed in the terror attack on Sept. 11, 2012. The focus of the Benghazi hearing […]
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 “Smart power at its best.” That’s what Clinton calls the failed U.S. intervention she led that has turned into an enormous catastrophe for the people of Libya. “Gov. Webb has said that he would never have used military force in Libya and that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey As Turkey degenerates, a military coup is more likely than total failure, and not a bad outcome for Israel. Famed commentator David Goldman, writing under the pseudonym “Spengler” in the “Asia Times”, has published an analysis in which he asks the question whether Turkey is in danger of becoming […]
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 The commander of the army of Libya’s internationally recognized government has led the effort to drive Islamists out of Benghazi for nearly a year. For his efforts, Gen. Khalifa Haftar has now been accused by the United Nations of deliberately trying to sabotage peace talks with what they referred to as a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The aggressive opportunism of Eritrean President Isayas Afewerke is close to an implosion, but the prospect exists that the 69-year-old former revolutionary will lash out in a final attempt to reassert some regional relevance and to preserve his government. Certainly, he has done nothing to build an economic […]