Special to WorldTribune.com When President Barack Obama took office, he offered a familiar foreign policy vision that had been the refrain of the Left’s criticism of his predecessor: The U.S. would withdraw from the region’s conflicts and focus on its perceived root cause by prosecuting the Israel-Palestinian peace process. Six years later, wars are raging […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi says Arab leaders have agreed in principle to create a joint military force. Sisi said on March 29 that the force was needed because of the “great challenges facing our Arab nation and threatening its capabilities.” Arab representatives will meet over […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Adam Turner I don’t envy the position of sensible Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate these days. As Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said recently – the world is on fire – and President Obama and his Secretary of State, John Kerry, continue to fiddle, or even add wood to the […]
Sol W. Sanders Why is one of the world’s poorest countries [40 percent living in poverty, halfway down on list of countries in per capita GDP] building capital-intensive nuclear power facilities? Iran has the third largest oil and the second largest gas reserves in the world [without recourse to new shale gas potential]. 2006 oil […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gen. Khalifa Haftar, a former officer involved in a coup that brought Moammar Gadhafi to power in 1969, has been appointed Libya’s new army chief a week after his nomination by the elected parliament. Hafter is also a former long-time resident of Vienna, Virginia, giving rise to rumors he had ties with […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs The consolidation of a self-proclaimed Caliphate in eastern Libya provides the jihadist camp with springboard into Africa and southern Europe. That strategic thrust, supported strongly by Qatar, Sudan, Iran, and Turkey, has already begun, and highlights the transformation of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO – Libya’s Abdullah al-Thani has threatened new joint air strikes with Egypt against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Libya. Such strikes on ISIL sites in Derna were mounted Feb. 16 after ISIL released a video showing the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians, mostly Egyptians. Thani warned that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The vast swath of nine countries bordering the southern reaches of the Sahara desert are marked by poverty, drought and chronic instability. Yet these oft-forgotten lands are increasingly making the headlines as in the case of Mali a few years ago, when militant Muslim factions […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Islamic State of Iraq and Levant has launched an offensive to capture oil facilities in Libya. Libyan sources said ISIL fighters were moving in convoys toward the oil port of Sidra, Middle East Newsline reported. They said hundreds of fighters, equipped with machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, were advancing […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey The world is coming to resemble the 1930’s more and more. From Argentina to Yemen to Ukraine to Syria and Lebanon, entropy, the natural tendency of everything to disintegrate if there is no force to hold it together, is coming to dominate the international scene. In the natural world […]