ISIL execution: 19 Yazidi girls burned alive in cages after refusing to be sex slaves

ISIL execution: 19 Yazidi girls burned alive in cages after refusing to be sex slaves

by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 A group of Yazidi girls who refused to become Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) sex slaves were locked in cages and burned alive, reports say. ISIL jihadists publicly executed the 19 Yazidi girls in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, according to the Kurdish ARA news […]

UN on defensive after backing down to Saudi Arabia over children rights report

UN on defensive after backing down to Saudi Arabia over children rights report

by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 Rights groups are blasting the UN’s decision to remove Saudi Arabia from a blacklist of nations accused of harming children in armed conflict. “It appears that political power and diplomatic clout have been allowed to trump the UN’s duty to expose those responsible for the killing and maiming of […]

Hillary gives speech on inequality in a $12,000 Armani jacket

Hillary gives speech on inequality in a $12,000 Armani jacket

by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 The campaign swimming in cash from Wall Street and Big Oil is now decking out its candidate in Giorgio Armani. Hillary Clinton recently donned a $12,495 Armani tweed jacket while giving a speech on income inequality. The day coat, made of “napa lambskin cut into strips and woven on […]

Report: Israel conducts first strike on Syria under new defense minister

Report: Israel conducts first strike on Syria under new defense minister

by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 Israeli warplanes struck a facility storing surface-to-air missiles near the Syrian city of Homs, a report said on June 7. If confirmed, the Israeli Air Force mission would be the first carried out in Syria under new Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. According to Syrian website Zaman Al Wasl, which […]

Disputes within Iraqi forces slows advance on Fallujah

Disputes within Iraqi forces slows advance on Fallujah

by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 Iraq’s advance on Fallujah has been delayed by strategy disagreements among the nation’s splintered forces. The Iraqi forces, having secured the southern edge of the city held by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), have been stalled for two days as commanders of elite counterterrorism special forces and […]

Iran denies visas to three GOP congressmen who opposed nuclear deal

Iran denies visas to three GOP congressmen who opposed nuclear deal

by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 Three Republican congressmen who voted against Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers have been denied visas by Teheran. Calling their request to monitor the nuclear deal a “publicity stunt,” Iran on June 7 said it would not grant visas to Reps. Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey, Mike Pompeo of […]

Jordan arrests suspect in killing of intelligence officers at Palestinian camp

Jordan arrests suspect in killing of intelligence officers at Palestinian camp

by WorldTribune Staff, June 7, 2016 Security forces in Jordan have arrested a suspect in the June 6 attack on a Palestinian refugee camp that killed five people, including three Jordanian intelligence officers. After a major manhunt, the suspect was tracked down and taken into custody following the attack at the Baqa’a camp, Jordanian state […]

Rice complains as U.S. pledges largest military aid package in history to Israel

Rice complains as U.S. pledges largest military aid package in history to Israel

by WorldTribune Staff, June 7, 2016 National Security Advisor Susan Rice scolded Israel while at the same time pledging a record U.S. military aid package to the Jewish state. Rice, in an address to the American Jewish Committee’s Global Forum on June 6, said that “even in these days of belt-tightening, we are prepared to […]

58 percent of Qatar’s population are migrant workers living in ‘labor camps’

58 percent of Qatar’s population are migrant workers living in ‘labor camps’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 7, 2016 The huge migrant workforce in Qatar has swelled to 1.4 million, making up 58 percent of the country’s population. The overwhelming majority of foreign workers – 1.34 million – are male and live in what the government calls “labor camps”, according to census figures released on June 5 by […]

Iranian commander in Iraq at Baghdad’s request, Iraqi foreign minister says

Iranian commander in Iraq at Baghdad’s request, Iraqi foreign minister says

by WorldTribune Staff, June 7, 2016 The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force is in Iraq as an adviser at the request of the government in Baghdad, Iraq’s foreign minister said on June 6. Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani is assisting Iraqi forces in the fight against Islamic State of Iraq and […]