Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Five years after the Arab Spring revolutions which swept the Middle East, the expansive North African country of Libya has descended into a dangerous downward spiral in which competing governments, militias, and terrorist elements are all part of a chaotic witches’ brew on the doorstep […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gen. Khalifa Haftar, a former officer involved in a coup that brought Moammar Gadhafi to power in 1969, has been appointed Libya’s new army chief a week after his nomination by the elected parliament. Hafter is also a former long-time resident of Vienna, Virginia, giving rise to rumors he had ties with […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has reported a sharp rise in defense exports. The Defense Industry Exporters Union said exports rose by 76 percent from July 2013 to July 2014. The union cited the sale of armored vehicles and night-vision systems to regional states, including Iraq and Libya. At a news conference on Aug. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — The Egyptian military has captured a large cache of anti-aircraft weapons delivered by convoys from Sudan and Libya. On Aug. 5, five policemen and four suspected insurgents were killed in a battle on the Matrouh highway, the usual convoy route along the Mediterranean coast. The sources said the insurgents attacked […]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama is on the verge of an historic triumph. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the American Left has been bitter about America’s victory in the Cold War. For decades, they preached moral equivalence between the United States and the Soviet Union. In their view, America was to blame for […]
Times247.com Weeks before the presidential election, President Barack Obama’s administration faces mounting opposition from within the ranks of U.S. intelligence agencies over what career officers say is a “cover up” of intelligence information about terrorism in North Africa. Intelligence held back from senior officials and the public includes numerous classified reports revealing clear Iranian support […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has drafted a plan to develop border areas in an effort to increase security. Officials said Egypt’s military regime has approved a proposal to develop areas along the border with Israel and Libya. They said the government would offer incentives for tens of thousands of people to move to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States is ready to support a Muslim Brotherhood-led government in Egypt. A senior official said the administration of President Barack Obama would not object to a Brotherhood victory in Egyptian parliamentary and presidential elections. The official said Washington did not view an Islamic-led Egypt, which has been receiving […]
NEW: EAST-ASIA-INTEL.COM INSIDE NORTH KOREA By Lee Jong-Heon East-Asia-Intel.com, October 26, 2011 SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, accompanied by his son and heir-apparent Kim Jong-Un, rushed to military fortresses after he heard about the bloody killing of his colleague dictator Moammar Gadhafi in Libya. The two Kims made a “surprise visit” […]
By Wesley Pruden Presidential elections don’t turn on what’s happening abroad. Barack Obama could be grateful for that much. Gallup finds that a tiny “kill bump” rewarded the president after the capture and slaying of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya, but good news from the Islamic world, which hasn’t yet felt the dawn of the 9th […]