Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The administration of President Barack Obama has played down the prospect of an Iranian nuclear breakout. Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged that Iran required two months to complete the assembly of its first nuclear weapon. But in testimony to Congress, Kerry said Iran might race toward a nuclear weapon […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The administration of President Barack Obama has acknowledged that its Syria rebel aid program failed. A senior U.S. diplomat told Congress that the hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to Sunni rebels have not made a dent in the three-year war against President Bashar Assad. The diplomat, Anne Patterson, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has determined that Russia increased military aid to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. A leading U.S. diplomat said Russia has replaced Iran as the leading military supplier to Damascus. U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford, said the Kremlin has delivered massive amounts of conventional weapons […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Global Information System/Defense & Foreign Affairs The seemingly unrelenting wave of media “revelations” in the United States against one of the key strategic policy officials in the government, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (Democrat, New Jersey), has its origins not in any malfeasance or misadventure by the Senator, but in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The Obama administration is facilitating the activities of foreign jihadists and Al Qaida throughout the Middle East, while claiming that it is fighting Al Qaida and that the organization has been “decimated.” This monumental deception is being carried out not only by the administration but its supporters. It is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community has resisted efforts by Congress to expand intelligence cooperation with Israel. The Director of National Intelligence lobbied Congress to remove language from legislation that would expand intelligence and military cooperation with Israel. DNI, which represents the 16-member U.S. intelligence community worked with Democrats on the Senate […]