U.S. Supreme Court to hear Iran bank’s appeal over 1983 Lebanon attack

U.S. Supreme Court to hear Iran bank’s appeal over 1983 Lebanon attack

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by Iran’s central bank against a $1.75 billion judgment over a 1983 bomb attack on a U.S. Marines barracks in Lebanon. The appeal by Bank Markazi aims to overturn a July 2014 ruling by the New […]

Iran recruiting Afghan refugees for often fatal missions to bolster Assad’s Syria

Iran recruiting Afghan refugees for often fatal missions to bolster Assad’s Syria

Special to WorldTribune.com Iran is said to be recruiting refugees from Afghanistan to replenish the heavily-depleted forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Afghans recruited as mercenaries and relatives of some fighters who were killed in Syria say the recruitment effort by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets desperate, unemployed Shi’ite Hazara refugees. “In terms of […]

Netanyahu: Iran and ISIL ‘united in their hostility to the West’

Netanyahu: Iran and ISIL ‘united in their hostility to the West’

Special to WorldTribune.com Though they may be on opposing sides on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, Iran and Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) share the same ultimate goal in seeking the destruction of Western values, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.. At a July 7 speech in Jerusalem marking 111 years since […]

Flashback: Report said U.S. seized 77 Mideastern aliens in southern Arizona

Flashback:  Report said U.S. seized 77 Mideastern aliens in southern Arizona

Special to WorldTribune.com Monday, August 2, 2004 [Out of control: Holder seeks legal team for flood of illegal immigrant children, June 9, 2014] U.S. Border Patrol agents detained 53 Arabic-speaking males in Arizona near the Mexican border on June 13, according to a report by a small-town newspaper in Tombstone, Arizona. The same report detailed […]

Israel report: Iran directed this month’s rocket attacks on Israel

Israel report: Iran directed this month’s rocket attacks on Israel

Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — Iran has been directing its proxies to attack Israel, a report said. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs asserted that Iran was ordering its Palestinian and Lebanese proxies to attack Israel. In a report, the center cited rocket and improvised explosive device strikes along Israel’s borders with Lebanon and Syria […]

Obama’s war: How does striking Syria on behalf of Al Qaida boost U.S. interests?

Obama’s war: How does striking Syria on behalf of Al Qaida boost U.S. interests?

Jeffrey T. Kuhner U.S. military intervention in Syria would be immoral, illegal and treasonous. It would benefit our mortal enemy, Al Qaida, and possibly trigger a wider Mideast war. President Obama is playing with fire. He is dangerously putting his ego above the national interest. Bombing Syria threatens to leave his presidency in tatters. In […]

New Hizbullah militia will guard Shi’ite shrines in Damascus

New Hizbullah militia will guard Shi’ite shrines in Damascus

Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Hizbullah has formed another Shi’ite militia to fight for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Hizbullah has organized Syrian Shi’ites into a militia called the Zulfiqar Battalion. On June 5, the battalion announced that it would protect Shi’ite shrines in the Damascus area. “We have been assigned to protect […]

Iran tests upgrades of rockets it delivered to Hamas, Hizbullah

Iran tests upgrades of rockets it delivered to Hamas, Hizbullah

Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran has been testing upgrades of medium-range rockets supplied to Hamas and Hizbullah. The Teheran regime said the Iranian Army fired enhanced variants of two leading rockets — Nazeat-10 and Fajr-5. The weapons were launched on March 14 during an Army exercise in central Iran in mid-March. “The missiles, designed […]

Israel deploys 3rd Iron Dome in north following strike on Syria site

Israel deploys 3rd Iron Dome in north following strike on Syria site

Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s military, preparing for attacks from Lebanon or Syria, has deployed a third missile and rocket defense system in the north. The Israel Air Force has deployed the Iron Dome battery near the border with Lebanon. Officials said this marked the third Iron Dome battery deployed in northern Israel […]

FLASHBACK: Where did Saddam’s WMD go? To Syria …

FLASHBACK: Where did Saddam’s WMD go? To Syria …

Special to WorldTribune.com (Originally posted on Aug. 26, 2003.) U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have finally been located. Unfortunately, getting to them will be nearly impossible for the United States and its allies, because the containers with the strategic materials are not in Iraq. Instead they are located in Lebanon’s heavily-fortified Bekaa […]