Special to WorldTribune.com Al Qaida affiliate Nusra Front and its Sunni Islamist allies seized an Alawite village in central Syria on May 12. Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham, an ultraconservative Sunni Islamic militant group, launched an assault on the village of Zara, killing more than 30 pro-Assad regime fighters, according to the Local Coordination Committees […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Stressing that terrorism “can only be defeated by a sustained and comprehensive approach” involving the active participation and collaboration of all States, the UN Security Council hosted an open debate on developing a counter-narrative campaign to in effect dissuade, discourage and ultimately defuse this widening […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Both Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and Al Qaida claimed responsibility for a series of deadly suicide bombings in Yemen in the past two days. At least 15 Yemeni troops were killed as ISIL jihadists unleashed three bombings and engaged in a gun battle outside the southeastern port city of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The number of people uprooted within their own countries by war and conflict rose last year to a record 40.8 million, a report published on May 10 found. “This is the highest figure ever recorded and twice the number of refugees worldwide,” said Jan Egeland, head […]
Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. prosecutors have announced they will not seek the death penalty against a Libyan terrorist charged in the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans. Ahmed Abu Khatallah, captured by U.S. special forces two years ago, is facing an 18-count indictment over the Sept. 11, 2012 killings at an American diplomatic and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com European parliament members and political parties are set to publicly endorse the Nobel Peace Prize candidacy of a Palestinian terrorist who murdered four Israelis and a Greek monk. Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of terrorist Marwan Barghouti, said the submission of her husband’s name for the Nobel Prize sends a message to the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) targeted Shi’ites in Baghdad on May 11 as a car bomb killed at least 66 people and wounded 87 more. The bomb was set off in a crowded outdoor market of Baghdad’s majority-Shi’ite eastern district of Sadr City, police officials said. Karim Salih, a 45-year […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A senior leader for Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) who had appeared in several of the terror group’s execution videos was killed in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike in Iraq on May 6, the Pentagon said. Abu Wahib, a top ISIL leader in Iraq’s Anbar province, and three other ISIL jihadists […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Two elderly women, one a Holocaust survivor, were wounded in a terror attack in southern Jerusalem on May 10 in what Israeli police said was a terrorist attack. The women, aged 82 and 86, were stabbed by masked assailants at the Armon Hanatziv promenade, police said, adding the attack fit the pattern […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Militants affiliated with Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) killed a Saudi soldier during a gunbattle on May 8 in a mountain village outside of Mecca. Saudi troops also found an explosive vest and bomb-making material after the jihadists retreated from the village of Thaqeef in the western Taif region, state […]