U.S. carrier group reverses course, heads for Korean peninsula

U.S. carrier group reverses course, heads for Korean peninsula

by WorldTribune Staff, April 9, 2017 A U.S. Navy strike group, which includes the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, is heading toward the Korean peninsula, a U.S. official said. The strike group departed Singapore and is moving toward the western Pacific Ocean near the Korean peninsula as a show of force, a U.S. official, speaking […]

ISIS claims responsibility for Palm Sunday church attacks in Egypt

ISIS claims responsibility for Palm Sunday church attacks in Egypt

by WorldTribune Staff, April 9, 2017 Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for attacks on two Egyptian Coptic churches on Palm Sunday in which 43 people were killed and more than 100 injured. ISIS’s affiliate in Egypt has increased attacks and threats against what is the largest Christian minority in the Middle East. About 10 percent […]

U.S. missile strike on Syria punctuated Trump talks with China’s Xi on North Korea

U.S. missile strike on Syria punctuated Trump talks with China’s Xi on North Korea

by WorldTribune Staff, April 7, 2017 U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian airbase came as President Donald Trump and China leader Xi JInping, meeting for the first time, were discussing what should be done about North Korea’s development of weapons of mass destruction. China did not immediately respond to President Donald Trump’s retaliatory strike on […]

National security team unified on attack from U.S. missile destroyers that killed 7

National security team unified on attack from U.S. missile destroyers that killed 7

by WorldTribune Staff, April 7, 2017 A little more than 24 hours after convening his National Security Council (NSC), President Donald Trump ordered the missile strike on an airfield from which Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces had earlier in the week launched a chemical weapons attack. “Everybody agreed that this was the option that they […]

Israel: Syria strike ‘restored American regional leadership in a big way’

Israel: Syria strike ‘restored American regional leadership in a big way’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 7, 2017 U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian air base on April 6 “restored America’s regional leadership in a big way,” an Israeli cabinet member said. “There are things that only the number one superpower in the world can do,” Yisrael Katz, Israel’s Transportation Minister and a member of the cabinet’s […]

Surviving as a Trump supporter in Cali: ‘Keep your head down’, get ‘a big German shepherd’

Surviving as a Trump supporter in Cali: ‘Keep your head down’, get ‘a big German shepherd’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2017 The first rule of being a Trump supporter in California is not to talk about being a Trump supporter in California. For those who dare to go public in their backing of the 45th president, one supporter has the following advice – get a big dog. “Living behind the […]

Egypt’s Sisi hails President Trump: ‘Nothing better than to counter evil’

Egypt’s Sisi hails President Trump: ‘Nothing better than to counter evil’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump has a “true understanding” of Mideast terrorism and what it takes to defeat it, Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi said on April 5. “There is a true understanding of realities in the region,” Sisi told Fox News in an interview, following his meeting with Trump […]

N. Korean cyber thiefs targeting banks, casinos worldwide

N. Korean cyber thiefs targeting banks, casinos worldwide

by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2017 A North Korean hacking group, known as Lazarus, has launched a global digital robbery ring that is targeting banks, casinos and trading firms dealing in digital currency, a group of cyber forensics analysts said. A report released this week by Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based cybersecurity and virus protection firm, […]

Israel questions Syria’s claim that chemical attack caused by strike on rebel depot

Israel questions Syria’s claim that chemical attack caused by strike on rebel depot

by WorldTribune Staff, April 5, 2017 Israel believes the chemical weapons attack on a Syrian rebel-held town was approved at the highest levels of the Assad regime and doubts the explanation from Moscow and Damascus. The official report said the town was exposed to deadly sarin gas after a conventional Syrian airstrike hit a rebel-held […]

Flashback: Team Obama’s influence operations started with Benghazi

Flashback: Team Obama’s influence operations started with Benghazi

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 Fresh evidence of the Obama administration’s political influence operations emerged on April 3 with the news that then-national security adviser Susan Rice was behind the unmasking of Trump associates. “Rice certainly wasn’t politically naive about the political uses of intelligence information,” the New York Post noted in an editorial. […]