Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has executed 300 people in Mosul, Iraq. “Daesh (ISIL) terrorists executed 300 people by firing squad in Mosul,” said Mahmoud al-Sourji, a spokesman for Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces on Feb. 7. Those executed were “Iraqi police personnel, army troopers and civilian activists,” Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Turkey’s military has intensified its attacks on Kurdish forces in both Syria and Iraq. Ankara’s forces have recently attacked People’s Protection Units (YPG) positions in northern Syria and launched air strikes on Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq. Experts say the recent landslide election victory has emboldened President Recep Tayyip […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recently pointed to an avalanche of mistakes the U.S., UN and the international community made that has contributed to the devastation of the Middle East and opened the way for Russian expansionism. Rumsfeld, in an interview with The Times of London, said George W. Bush mistakenly […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gen. John Allen, special envoy to the U.S.-led coalition fighting jihadists, said Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) must be defeated or its unprecedented brand of “depravity and brutality” will “wreak havoc on the progress of humanity.” In a keynote speech to the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar on June […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militants drove a tank laden with explosives into an Iraqi base south of Samarra on June 1, killing 38 Iraqi policeman and injuring 46 more. The base has been the site of a back-and-forth battle between ISIL and Iraqi security forces. Iraq forces had taken […]
Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. officials on May 26 downplayed Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL) recent gains in Iraq as Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pledged to recapture Ramadi in days, perhaps with assistance from Iran. The Iraqi government has called for volunteers and enlisted the aid of Shi’ite militiamen in its counteroffensive in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who heads Iran’s elite Quds Force, said Iran has done far more than the U.S. against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). “Obama has not done a damn thing so far to confront Daesh: doesn’t that show that there is no will in America to confront […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) used a series of car bombs to attack the capital of Iraq’s Anbar Province in the early morning hours of May 15. When the smoke cleared, ISIL had raised its flag in the government compound of Ramadi. Iraqi hospital officials said at least 11 people […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Libertyf Tehran says a U.S. drone strike killed two Iranian advisers in Iraq last week, but the United States says it has only struck Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militants in its campaign. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on its sepahnews.ir website on March 30 that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Harlan Ullman For those of us old enough to recall the Vietnam War, fact and reality were obscured and mangled by successive White Houses anxious to reach the delusional “light at the end of the tunnel.” Tragically, at the end of the tunnel lay a quagmire that consumed 58,000 American and […]