Special to WorldTribune.com French President Francois Hollande reportedly will urge U.S. President Barack Obama to escalate U.S. attacks against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), which Hollande called “the biggest terrorist factory the world has ever seen.” Hollande, who will meet with Obama on Nov. 24, is expected to make clear to Obama the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. President Barack Obama’s new strategy to defeat Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is to win with ideas instead of guns. During a summit with world leaders at the United Nations, Obama claimed that “military pressure” will not force ISIL to back down and that the war of ideas was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — NATO has determined that a Western-backed military coalition could take years to defeat Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. Officials said the United States and its allies concluded that the war against ISIL would require a sustained military and counter-insurgency campaign. They said the Western alliance must also work with […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — France has determined that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was selling crude oil to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Officials said French intelligence has tracked ISIL sales of oil from the Dir Al Zour province to the Assad regime. They said the oil sales marked secret […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Western nations have concluded that the regime of President Bashar Assad was preventing the transfer of Syria’s weapons of mass destruction. Western diplomats said the Assad regime, despite pledges to the United Nations, has surrendered less than five percent of Syria’s 1,300 ton-chemical weapons stockpile. The diplomats said Damascus was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — Israel has assessed that Iran was testing non-conventional weapons in Syria. The Israeli intelligence community has determined that Iran was testing a range of chemical weapons in Syria amid the war against President Bashar Assad. Officials said the tests included those of CW warheads on artillery shells fired toward Sunni […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — NATO has determined that President Bashar Assad ended any short- or mid-term threat from the Sunni revolt in Syria. Officials said NATO, in consultation with Western intelligence agencies, assessed that the Sunni rebel campaign against Assad failed over the last three months. The officials said Assad’s military, backed by Iran […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Al Qaida was believed to have conducted a car bombing against a Western embassy in Libya. On April 23, Al Qaida Organization in the Islamic Maghreb is said to have detonated a car bomb in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. AQIM targeted the French embassy and two guards were injured […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Sunni rebels, restricted by Arab sponsors, have run low on ammunition amid the offensive by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Rebel sources said their leading supporters — Qatar and Saudi Arabia — have withheld supplies of ammunition and other military equipment in 2013. They said the two Gulf […]