By World Tribune Staff on May 16, 2016 The West is largely responsible for the current chaotic situation in Libya, the prime minister of the country’s new unity government said. Fayez al-Sarraj said the West lost interest after longtime dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi was ousted. Hillary Clinton, then-U.S. secretary of state, played a major role […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The first Muslim elected mayor of a major Western city said Prime Minister David Cameron was following the “Donald Trump playbook” in an attempt to prevent his election. London Mayor Sadiq Khan on May 7 said Cameron and his Conservative Party tried to divide London’s communities by linking him to Islamic extremists. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders There are important lessons for the U.S. in the apprehension in Belgium, after four months, of one of the chief perpetrators of the Nov. 13, 1915 Paris massacre which took the lives of 130 innocents. This security lapse has its parallel in the current state of relations between […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A British official said staying in the European Union makes the UK vulnerable to terror attacks, a direct contradiction of comments made by Prime Minister David Cameron. “I think the present status of the open border we have right now many of us feel does actually leave that door open (to Paris-style […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The United States is deploying a special operations unit to Iraq that will look to “capture” Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) leaders and “will be in a position to conduct unilateral operations into Syria,” U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said. Carter said the U.S. commandos would work with the Iraqi […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi is enjoying the West’s warm embrace as Cairo’s strategic importance in the Middle East comes more into focus amid failed states and the threat of terrorism. Sisi this week arrived in London for his first state visit to the United Kingdom since taking power in a coup […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct UK Prime Minister David Cameron won a sweeping electoral victory for his Conservative Party this May but already three to four senior Tory politicians are seen as possibly maneuvering behind the scenes to replace him as Britain’s leading politician. Dr. Liam Fox, former UK defense chief, a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The fate of the Middle East is riding on the success of Russia’s intervention after the failure of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), Syrian President Bashar Assad said. “The alliance between Russia, Syria, Iraq and Iran must succeed or else the whole region will be […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A socialist politician who has compared the U.S. military to Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and seeks closer ties with Vladimir Putin is topping the polls in the race to lead Britain’s Labor Party. Jeremy Corbyn put his name forward after the resignation of Ed Milliband and immediately took the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, in London. Britain’s general elections of May 7, 2015, quickly produced a decisive and unexpected result: an absolute majority in the House of Commons to the Conservative Party, ending the five-year run of coalition Conservative government with the Liberal Democratic Party. There was no indication, however, that […]