Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United Nations has reported another delay in the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons program. The coordinator of the international effort to destroy Syria’s CW program said the effort would continue into 2015. Sigrid Kaag, special coordinator of the joint mission of the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — For the first time, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has launched a campaign against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. On July 24, hundreds of ISIL fighters attacked Syrian Army positions in the northern provinces of Hasakeh and Raqqa. “Islamic State wants to clean the [Hasakeh] province […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The Syrian Army, in its first such ground operation, has sought to stop Al Qaida’s capture of a major natural gas field. The Syrian Army has been battling Al Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in their first ground battle. So far, some 300 Syrian soldiers were reported […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com JERUSALEM — Syria has been expelling much of its majority Sunni community, a report said. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs asserted that the regime of President Bashar Assad was changing the demographic balance in Syria. In a report, the center said Assad was transforming Syria from a Sunni to a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Thomas Friedman’s article is a reflection of an inverted world where minor, secondary characters are villains, where genuine villains never appear at the scene, and people are united by good intentions and ties of friendship. By Alexander Maistrovoy “Arsonists and Firefighters”. This is the title of Thomas Friedman’s article, which is referring […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — France has determined that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was selling crude oil to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Officials said French intelligence has tracked ISIL sales of oil from the Dir Al Zour province to the Assad regime. They said the oil sales marked secret […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Syria, despite a clean bill of health from the international community, still possesses weapons of mass destruction, a report said. The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies asserted that the regime of President Bashar Assad still retained chemical and biological weapons facilities. In a report, author Dany Shoham said the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The regime of President Bashar Assad has returned to northern Syria near the border with Turkey. Assad regime forces have captured a key town near the Turkish border. Military sources said the Syrian Army as well as the National Defense Forces drove Sunni rebels out of Kassab in the Latakia […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com WASHINGTON — The United States has launched a campaign against Israel in wake of its refusal to attack Syria. Diplomatic sources said Israel rebuffed a request by President Barack Obama to attack the Syrian Army as it advanced toward rebel strongholds in the Golan Heights in May 2014. The sources said […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Morocco has arrested a suspected cell of recruiters for the war in Syria. The Moroccan Interior Ministry said three people were detained on charges of recruiting and financing young Muslims to fight the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The ministry said the recruits were assigned to join Al Qaida […]