Special to WorldTribune.com A smuggler attempted to take a page out of Homer Simpson’s book to become the beer baron of Saudi Arabia, only to wind up saying d’oh – 48,000 times. The smuggler was stopped at the al-Batha border crossing with the United Arab Emirates with 48,000 cans of what first appeared to be […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Iran-backed Houthi rebels reclaimed key positions near Aden, the temporary capital of Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government. Military sources said the Houthis re-took positions on Nov. 8 that they had lost to Saudi-led coalition forces in recent months, including a key overlook to the strategic Al-Anad airbase in Lahj province […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran has summoned the Saudi charge d’affaires in Tehran to protest the execution of three Iranians in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking. According to Iranian state media, the death sentences of the three men, who had been convicted of smuggling large amounts of hashish to the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Saudi Arabia is intent on drowning its competition in a sea of cheap oil. “There have been no conversations here that say we should cut production now that we’ve seen the pain,” Saudi Aramco Chairman Khalid al-Falih told the Financial Times. “The only thing to do now is to let the market […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran says it has launched an investigation into the fate of its former ambassador to Lebanon, who went missing in September’s deadly hajj stampede, through the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Deputy Foreign Minister Amir Abdolahian said on November 5 that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Adam Turner [Continued from: Credit where credit is due: Bush toppled Saddam, Obama gave rise to a genocidal nightmare] There are essentially two pertinent questions when considering what the Middle East would be like if the United States had not invaded Iraq in 2003: 1) in a hypothetical world where the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The United States and Saudi Arabia are responsible for the rise of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and several other terrorist organizations, an Iranian official said. The U.S., “accompanied by different countries like Saudi Arabia and others, … created Al Qaida, the Taliban, Jabhat al-Nusra, ISIL and other terrorist groups […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Iran has confirmed it will join the United States, Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia in talks over Syria’s future. The five parties, all heavily invested in the outcome of the war and the future of Syrian President Bashar Assad, will meet on Oct. 30 in Vienna. Egypt and Iraq will also attend. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Add two more to the long list of wealthy Saudi royals behaving badly when they step outside the kingdom. Lebanese authorities on Oct. 26 seized two tons of Captagon pills, a popular amphetamine in the Middle East, before they were loaded onto the private plane of Prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A group of senior Iranian and Houthi commanders were killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike in Yemen’s capital on Oct. 23. The air strike targeted the home in Sanaa of former Yemeni Gen. Mohsen Ali Ahmar, an ally of exiled President Abbed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, according to media reports in Yemen. […]