Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler NEW YORK — Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates slammed both the Obama Administration and the presidential primary candidates calling for long-term realism in America’s fight against the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) terrorism. “I think that the president has all along underestimated ISIS, has underestimated the degree […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A Yazidi folk singer has formed an all-female fighting unit which aims to take revenge on Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) terrorists who executed, raped and drove thousands of Yazidis from their homes. The “Sun Girls” battalion was formed by 30-year-old Yazidi singer Xate Shingali, who was given permission by […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has executed an antiquities scholar who refused to reveal to the terrorists where valuable Palmyra antiquities were being hidden. ISIL militants beheaded Khaled al-Asaad, 82, a renowned antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his body on a Roman column in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty German military observers in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region say Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) fighters appear to have used chlorine gas shells to attack Kurdish forces. A German intelligence unit in the Kurdish region’s capital, Irbil, told the German newspaper Bild that the apparent […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Joanna Paraszczuk, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty “I love my mom very much…. When I start to think about my mother, my God, it’s as if my heart is breaking.” These words are from the opening lines of a post shared by Russian-speaking fighters for the militant group Islamic State […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The spate of brutal and systematic attacks on Christian communities in Syria, Iraq and Egypt by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant has surged. Yet despite this targeted violence, there’s a climate of international indifference by many governments and even some Christian communities in […]