Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey’s Islamist government has faced the greatest unrest in its more than decade-long rule. Tens of thousands of people have fought Turkish police and security forces in 235 reported protests throughout the country in what has turned into a campaign to oust Prime Minister Recep Erdogan. Officials acknowledged that this […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israeli researchers have linked rocket attacks to adolescent violence. A study by Ben-Gurion University concluded that chronic exposure to rocket attacks launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel’s Negev desert increased severe adolescent violence. The study, conducted by Golan Shahar with Christopher Henrich from Georgia State University in the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Saudi King Abdullah, believed to be in declining health, has left for Morocco. Officials said Abdullah, said to be more than 95, arrived in the Moroccan port of Casablanca on late May 31. They said the Saudi king would stay in his villa in northern Morocco for an undetermined […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Syrian rebels have begun attacking Hizbullah bases in Lebanon. Sunni rebels, including those aligned with Al Qaida, have crossed the border from Syria to attack Hizbullah bases in Lebanon. On June 2, hundreds of Syrian rebels, supported by rocket attacks, clashed with Hizbullah troops in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. The fighting […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has been concerned over what officials termed Tunisia’s lenient treatment of Al Qaida supporters. Officials said the administration of President Barack Obama was stunned by the two-year suspended sentences handed out by a Tunisian court to 20 Salafists convicted of attacking the U.S. embassy in the North […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — After two years of civil war, support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad was said to have sharply increased. NATO has been studying data that told of a sharp rise in support for Assad. The data, compiled by Western-sponsored activists and organizations, showed that a majority of Syrians […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — President Bashar Assad says the first shipment of the S-300 air defense system has arrived in Syria. In an interview on May 30, Assad appeared to confirm reports from Israel and Russia that Damascus was receiving components of the S-300PMU2 air defense system. The Syrian president did not say when […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto The media is now consistently referring to three scandals engulfing the Obama presidency, even using a shorthand expression such as a “trifecta” of troubling incidents. Yet, there is a scandal brewing that is worse than the Department of Justice violating freedom of the press, the Internal Revenue Service abusing […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — A leading Western think tank has determined that the West Bank was heading toward a Palestinian revolt. The International Crisis Group has determined that Palestinians were preparing to revolt against Israeli rule in the West Bank and Jerusalem. The Brussels-based think tank, said the PA, despite massive foreign aid, was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Key opinion leaders in Egypt have expressed alarm over a foreign project to divert the Nile River. Officials said the regime of President Mohammed Morsi has been monitoring the launch of an Ethiopian project to construct a dam over the Blue Nile. They said the dam could deny Egypt more […]