Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The Syrian opposition has reported the death of President Bashar Assad’s brother, assigned to quell the Sunni revolt. The opposition said Maher Assad died of injuries sustained in a July 18 bombing of National Security Agency headquarters in Damascus. Opposition sources said Maher was critically injured in the attack and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Viktor Bout, known as Russia’s merchant of death, was handed a 25-year jail sentence in New York. Moscow was offended, and called it “absolutely unacceptable” and a “politically motivated” miscarriage of justice. “It’s even more outrageous that this is not the first politically motivated sentence lacking a […]
