Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Sunni majority has become a leading contributor to the revolt in neighboring Syria. Diplomats and officials agreed that Sunni tribal leaders were helping organize a massive flow of weapons and fighters from Iraq to Syria. They said the flow stemmed from several Iraqi cities, including Qaim in the west […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Libya’s Defense Ministry is recruiting thousands of young Libyans for a force to protect borders and critical facilities. Officials said more than 8,000 militia fighters have enlisted and began a six-week training. “The 8,000 who joined are from all over Libya,” Libyan Deputy Defense Minister Sadiq Al Obeidi said. On March […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community has determined that water shortages in the Middle East could lead to severe tension over the next decade. The National Intelligence Estimate for 2012 has assessed that Middle East and other nations could be drawn into a confrontation as they struggle with decreasing water reserves. The […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Iran has established a network that could stage major attacks in the United States, a congressional report said. The House Homeland Security Committee has asserted that Iran built a network throughout the United States. In a report, the committee said the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah is believed to have been directing hundreds […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — President Bashar Assad could order weapons of mass destruction attacks to save his regime, a report said. The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies asserted that Assad could employ Syria’s massive WMD arsenal against any rising Sunni revolt. In a report, the center warned that the Damascus regime could also […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — A spate of seven seemingly unexplained serial killings has shocked France with the uncomfortable realization that the specter of terrorism has not vanished. But the shootings of three soldiers and later, the calculated cold- blooded rampage at a Jewish school killing a rabbi and three children, turned the tragedy […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — As the ongoing conflict in Syria churns out a ghastly humanitarian carnage, diplomatic efforts to halt the violence are shadowed by last year’s Libyan intervention, which morphed into a six month long military operation to topple a tyrant. So when the UN Security Council met again on Britain’s initiative […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt’s natural gas pipeline to the rest of the Middle East has again been bombed. Officials said the bombing of the Arab Gas Pipeline took place in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on late March 5. Officials said gas supplies to neighboring Israel and Jordan were severed after the attack in northern […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Ed Koch According to an Associated Press story in the Feb. 24th Daily News, “Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly dispatched his detectives to surveil every Muslim-owned business and community center in Newark in the clearest sign yet that the NYPD’s fight against terrorism has gone terribly awry.” This announcement has set off […]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner Radical Islam is on the march. It is being aided and abetted by the Obama administration. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently warned at a conference in Tunisia that the Arab Spring is backsliding. The democratic transformation of the Middle East and North Africa is not working out as Mrs. Clinton […]