Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranian leaders on August 5 offered to help mediate the conflict in Syria and said they would soon present a Syrian peace plan to the United Nations. “We will do everything in our power politically so that peace and stability return to Syria,” said Iranian President […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has circulated a “price list” for child slaves to its fighters in Syria and Iraq, according to a United Nations official. Zainab Bangura, the UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict, told Bloomberg that girls are “peddled like barrels of petrol.” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The UN Security Council endorsed the Iran nuclear deal on July 20 as members of the U.S. Congress from both parties seethed over the Obama administration prompting the UN vote before Congress had its say. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, Tennessee Republican, said the move was “highly problematic” and called […]
Special to WorldTribune.com In declaring the Temple Mount area a “Muslim holy site of worship,” the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on July 7 issued a “completely one sided resolution” on the Old City of Jerusalem that “deliberately ignores the historical connection between the Jewish people and their ancient capital,” Israeli officials […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The number of refugees fleeing their native lands as well as people being internally displaced in their home countries has surged beyond even the most dire predictions. Just six months ago, a UN report launched an urgent appeal for $16.4 billion to assist 58 million […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A new survey says the cost of conflicts reached a record $14.3 trillion in 2014, equivalent to 13.4 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. The 2015 Global Peace Index, published on June 17 by the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace, says that amount is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Key to Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) recruitment of foreign jihadists has been the kidnapping and sale of young girls, according to UN envoy on sexual violence Zainab Bangura. Some have been offered up “for as little as a pack of cigarettes,” she said. When ISIL fighters overrun an area […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The targeted killings of journalists, the suffocating censorship in many countries, and the widening governmental controls on media activities, characterize the contemporary media landscape in large parts of the world. Add the ghastly shock effect of beheadings of journalists in the Middle East by Islamic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Two warships joined seven other U.S. vessels in the Arabian Sea, to counter an Iranian convoy suspected of carrying weapons to Shi’ite Houthi rebels in violation of a UN arms embargo adopted last week. “We believe these vessels may have arms and equipment on board,” an official told AFP on April 20. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The UN nuclear watchdog says it has made “limited” progress in its probe into the military potential of Iran’s nuclear program and needs greater cooperation from Tehran. Yukiya Amano, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said at a conference in Washington on March 23 […]