Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner The establishment has become unhinged. Donald Trump’s call to impose a temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration and travel into the United States has caused the political and media class to completely melt down. Liberals openly refer to him as a new “Hitler” or neo-fascist strongman. All of his fellow […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs [Editor’s note: The following full-length report by Yossef Bodansky details Russia’s unambiguous response to the growing jihadist threat in Syria and the Middle East that has remarkably been aided and abetted at several junctures by Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has expanded its business empire. Visitors to Mosul can now purchase trinkets of terrorism at ISIL’s new souvenir shop. Photos taken from Arabic social media sites on July 26 revealed a shop filled not only with the standard tourist gear, such as ISIL flags, but […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) released a video on June 30 in which it promised to “uproot the state of the Jews” and remove “Hamas dictators” in Gaza. “We will uproot the state of the Jews [Israel] and you [Hamas] and Fatah [in the West Bank], and all of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A U.S. defense official on June 8 said Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) ambushed a human-smuggling convoy in Libya last week and kidnapped 88 Eritrean Christians. ISIL’s capture of the Christians was confirmed by the U.S. after officials reviewed a recent intelligence report. The convoy was hit by ISIL south […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Key to Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) recruitment of foreign jihadists has been the kidnapping and sale of young girls, according to UN envoy on sexual violence Zainab Bangura. Some have been offered up “for as little as a pack of cigarettes,” she said. When ISIL fighters overrun an area […]
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 Morocco on June 3 announced the arrests of nine alleged Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) recruiters who were said to be operating in cities throughout the country. “According to accurate data, the terrorist cell members made secret contacts with leaders of ISIL to coordinate operations of sending Moroccan volunteer fighters […]
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 Since capturing the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has executed more than 400 people, mostly women and children, according to reports. “The terrorists have killed more than 400 people … and mutilated their bodies, under the pretext that they cooperated with the government and did […]