Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Al Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has deployed captured U.S. combat vehicles in the war in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the introduction of the U.S.-origin Humvee combat vehicle in Syria. The British-based monitor group said ISIL was seen driving Humvees in the movement’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey, fighting infiltration from such neighbors as Iran, Iraq and Syria, plans to form a border security agency. Officials said the government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has approved plans for a border security enforcement agency. The officials said the agency, under the auspices of the Interior Ministry, would be […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Al Qaida’s leading militia in the Levant has claimed a presence in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant said it established bases in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in 2014. In a statement ISIL, deemed the most powerful Sunni Islamist force in the region, was training […]
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 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — A leading Al Qaida militia has established an operational presence in Turkey. Officials said Al Qaida’s Islamic State of Iraq and Levant has maintained a presence in several Turkish cities. They said ISIL appeared to be most concentrated in the Syrian refugee camps in southeastern Turkey as well as […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s military has been ordered to keep Hizbullah away from the northern border of the Jewish state. Military sources said Israel Army’s Northern Command has been on alert for Hizbullah attacks along the border with Lebanon and Syria. The sources said infantry and armored units have been ordered to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Lebanon has been bracing for a suicide bombing campaign. Security sources said Lebanon’s military and police were on alert for daily suicide strikes similar to those in Iraq and Syria. They said the attacks would pit Al Qaida-aligned militias against the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah in what could include the assassination of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs There should be no ambiguity: the U.S. and the West suffered a transformative strategic reversal on Sept. 10, 2013, and Russia and Iran each separately made substantial strategic gains and consolidation as a consequence. But the pivotal decision of Sept. 10 by President Barack Obama […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Hizbullah has formed another Shi’ite militia to fight for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Hizbullah has organized Syrian Shi’ites into a militia called the Zulfiqar Battalion. On June 5, the battalion announced that it would protect Shi’ite shrines in the Damascus area. “We have been assigned to protect […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Hizbullah led a special forces operation that captured a Sunni rebel hub after 17 days of heavy fighting. Hizbullah sources said about 1,200 special forces troops led the attack on the rebel-held town of Qusair in May and early June of 2013. They said the battle marked the most intense […]