by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2016 The United States is offering Russia a new military pact against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and Al Qaida in Syria, according to a leaked U.S. proposal, but analysts say the U.S. had no choice but to cooperate with Russia on Moscow’s terms after Russia’s show of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is exploiting the weakness in President Barack Obama’s counter-terror strategy, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said. “The strategy they (ISIL) have assumed is a global strategy,” Flynn said at The Heritage Foundation on July 13. “And the strategy that we have […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2016 A 43-year-old man who said he identifies as a woman was arrested after allegedly taking photos of a woman in an Idaho Target fitting room. Police said Sean Patrick Smith was dressed in women’s clothing when he entered the fitting room in the women’s section of the store in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2016 Israel is livid after France’s foreign minister reportedly met with leaders of Hizbullah’s “political wing” in politically-paralyzed Lebanon. Jean-Marc Ayrault met with a political delegation of Hizbullah in Lebanon on July 12, according to local media reports. “It’s clear that Foreign Minister Ayrault would not meet with the ‘political […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2016 Millions of people are facing famine in Yemen as importers are unable to have food shipped in after Western banks severed credit lines. Some $260 million is stuck in banks due to the civil war, trade and aid sources say. The United Nations said 10 of Yemen’s 22 governorates […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2016 Iran is poised to restore its nuclear program if world powers don’t live up to their end of the nuclear deal, President Hassan Rouhani said. Rouhani made the comments on state TV on July 13, the eve of the one-year anniversary of the deal (or Joint Comprehensive Plan of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 13, 2016 Iran sent four machine gun-laden speed boats and a guided missile patrol ship to hassle a U.S. warship that was transiting the Strait of Hormuz on July 11, the U.S. Navy said. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) vessels came as close as 500 yards to the USS New […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 13, 2016 Donald Trump said Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should think about leaving the bench, calling the ornery 83-year-old “a disgrace to the court” for her recent comments slamming the GOP presidential candidate. “I think it’s highly inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 13, 2016 President Barack Obama and his subordinates are, if nothing else, consistent. While the president referred to himself 45 times in a speech that started as a eulogy of Dallas police officers killed in last week’s attack, Attorney General Loretta Lynch refused to give responses 74 times in congressional testimony […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 13, 2016 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led “the most right-wing government in Israeli history” to a trio of stunning diplomatic successes. Analysts say Netanyahu continues to prove the conventional wisdom wrong after his “triumphant” tour of Africa, warming of relations and increased security cooperation with Egypt and the restoration of […]
