Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Among the many anomalies of the Obama Administration’s foreign policy, none appear so anachronistic as its refusal to label the persecution and annihilation of Christians in the Middle East as genocide. Granted that the term has been too often thrown around carelessly, used incorrectly as a synonym for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A U.S. defense official on June 8 said Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) ambushed a human-smuggling convoy in Libya last week and kidnapped 88 Eritrean Christians. ISIL’s capture of the Christians was confirmed by the U.S. after officials reviewed a recent intelligence report. The convoy was hit by ISIL south […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Kurds in the Syrian north offer one of the few glimmers of hope in a region where religious minorities are brutalized, repressed and at risk of genocide. Minority Rights Group International (MRG) issued its 2015 Peoples Under Threat list and Syria was at the top after five years of war that has […]