Special to WorldTribune.com Cuba raised its flag at its newly designated embassy in Washington, D.C. on July 20, officially restoring relations with the United States after 50 years. At the flag-raising ceremony, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said the U.S. must lift the trade embargo and return Guantanamo Bay to Cuba for the restoration of […]
NEW YORK — A firestorm of criticism has erupted in the wake of the Obama administration’s politically ham-handed prisoner swap with the Afghan Taliban. The initial good news about the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, in Taliban captivity for five years, soon soured after the terms of the deal were announced. We were taken! Think […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The U.S. Barack Obama Administration was, on June 2, coming under intense domestic and international criticism for violating a fundamental tenet of Western alliance states not to “negotiate with terrorists” or militant groups, or enter into concessions with “terrorist organizations” for the release of its nationals captured by […]