Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com WASHINGTON — Congress has been told that Qatar consistently refused to enforce laws meant to stop funding to Al Qaida and Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. A leading counter-insurgency analyst told the House that Qatar was passing laws that it did not enforce. Matthew Levitt said Doha’s policy was transmitted […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dossier at Geostrategy-Direct.com TEL AVIV — Before being told last week to settle their differences out of the public eye, Israel’s top intelligence agencies had erupted into an open feud over responsibility for the Hamas war in mid-2014. In what reflected growing tension amid official inquiries, Military Intelligence and the Israel Security […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com A diplomatic war between Moscow and the West has flared up, the old fashioned Cold War way. The exchange occurred on the eve of the European Union’s meeting in Brussels to discuss further sanctions against Russia. A German female diplomat working in Germany’s embassy in Moscow was expelled […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com On the joyous occasion of the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev made a highly-charged speech at the Brandenburg Gate on Nov. 8, which represented an about-face in his worldview. Gorbachev chastised the West in general and the United […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dossier at Geostrategy-Direct.com TEL AVIV — Israel and Azerbaijan have become leading partners in defense and energy, a report said. The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies said that relations between Azerbaijan and Israel have improved dramatically. In a report, the center said Baku has been a leading energy supplier while Jerusalem was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Estonia, a NATO member state, is demanding an explanation from Moscow over an incident last week involving a Russian intelligence-gathering aircraft. The plane flew unannounced into Estonian airspace, provoking an emergency scramble by the NATO defense system. NATO confirmed that its F-16s were dispatched after detecting the Russian […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia and the Netherlands have accused each other of sending a submarine into Swedish territorial waters. On Oct. 17, the Swedish military launched a massive search for a mysterious foreign submarine in its territorial waters. The reports led to speculation that the uninvited submarine belonged to Russia and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com When U.S. Vice President openly chastised Turkey for allowing foreign militant fighters to cross its territory into Syria to join Islamist State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), President Vladimir Putin of Russia picked up the phone. Putin, estranged from the international community for his Ukraine gambit, called Turkey’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com BAGHDAD — Islamic State of Iraq and Levant has targeted Iraq’s leading Shi’ite militia. Officials said ISIL has begun a campaign against the Mahdi Army, deemed the largest Shi’ite militia in Iraq. They said ISIL squads were monitoring and attacking Mahdi strongholds in an effort to sow panic among the ruling […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The New York Times reported on Oct. 14 that U.S. troops in Iraq had between 2004 and 2011 repeatedly encountered Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Meanwhile, voters back home and the world at large had been repeatedly told precisely the opposite by U.S. media reports. The Republican administration of George W Bush […]