Report: Hands-off U.S. approach to Syria could lead to ‘terrifying outcomes’

Report: Hands-off U.S. approach to Syria could lead to ‘terrifying outcomes’

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Civil war in Syria would endanger U.S. national security, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy asserted that Washington’s policy against military intervention assured the widening of the civil war in Syria. The institute, in a report by executive director Robert Satloff, raised the prospect that President […]

State of the Iran-Israel showdown, geopolitically speaking

State of the Iran-Israel showdown, geopolitically speaking

Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory Copley, Global Information System Global security concerns continued, in early April 2012, to be geared around the possibility of armed conflict between Iran and Israel, an issue hedged by a range of other conflicts and issues. The actual prospect of such a conflict, however, remained extremely low, for a variety of […]

Khamenei: Marxism and western democracy have faded, Islam has awakened and ‘we should move ahead’

Khamenei: Marxism and western democracy have faded, Islam has awakened and ‘we should move ahead’

Special to WorldTribune.com Address by Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei to participants of “Islamic Awakening and Youth” conference, Jan. 31. In the Name of Allah, the All-Beneficent, the All-Merciful I welcome you all, [our] dear guests, dear youth, the conveyors of great tidings for the future of the Islamic Ummah. Every one of you conveys a great […]

Violence from tribal, Sunni-Shi’ite tensions disrupt Kuwait elections

Violence from tribal, Sunni-Shi’ite tensions disrupt Kuwait elections

Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Kuwait is holding parliamentary elections amid rising violence. Up to 400,000 Kuwaitis began to cast their votes on Feb. 2 in elections described as the most tense in decades. The heated campaign has been marred by tribal and ethnic violence, which prompted an expanded security presence in Kuwait, which […]

End game on the Mideast chess board? The Saudi-Iranian Cold War heats up

By Fariborz Saremi, Freepressers.com The new Middle East Cold War comes complete with its own spy-versus-spy intrigues, disinformation campaign, shadowy proxy war and supercharged state rhetoric and very high stakes. There has long been blood between the Saudis and Iran. Saudi Arabia is a Sunni/Wahabi Muslim Kingdom of ethnic Arabs. Iran is a Shi’ite Islamic Republic […]