Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, August 28, 2024 Who remembers Libya? Who recalls how we became embroiled in this civil war only then to quickly lose interest? But sadly, Americans vividly remember Benghazi and the horrible loss of a U.S. Consulate, the death of a respected U.S. diplomat, killing of three security personnel […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2023 [Editor’s note: The following is a compilation of WorldTribune.com reports on events in the years after the September 11, 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya. At 9:40 pm local time, members of Ansar al-Sharia attacked the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi. The terrorists killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 8, 2023 It’s been two years since the fall of Afghanistan. The tragic collapse of Kabul to the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban signaled the last sordid chapter in the Biden Administration’s appalling and shambolic “withdrawal” from America’s longest military commitment. But beyond the perceived American weakness and strategic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 7, 2023 There’s blood in the Nile. The mighty river separating Sudan’s capital city Khartoum has seen fighting erupt between two rival factions of the Army. What could have been a quick internal flash up between the main military factions which have tenuously ruled this vast land […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 12, 2020 When the Obama administration went after Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi without congressional approval, the major media and Democrats cheered. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton famously boasted: “We came, we saw, he died.” So, if the media and Dems had no problem with the Obama team’s leading role in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by John McNabb The day after Christmas, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached yet another all-time high. Over 100 Dow Jones highs have been recorded during the three-year Trump Presidency. The Standard & Poors Average also reached an all-time high as did the NASDAQ which closed over 9,000 for the first […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Widening conflict is brewing in Libya, the North African country wracked by civil strife and embroiled in political chaos. Caught in this vortex of warring militias, human traffickers, and a weak internationally-backed government of sorts, remains a beleaguered UN effort to bring a political solution […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 10, 2018 At least two people were killed on Sept. 10 when gunmen opened fire on the headquarters of Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Tripoli. Two of the gunmen were also killed and at least 10 NOC staff members wounded in what Libyan officials said was the first attack of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com, August 1, 2018 By John McNabb In 2007 just before the November presidential election, I was serving as Chairman of an international energy contractor that had been in existence for over one hundred years and had operated in over sixty countries during that span. Some of my senior team accompanied me on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk John Bolton, U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, may be hawkish and conservative, but at least you had to credit him with sophistication and having insights on the issues and the people whom he was confronting. In the course of many visits to Korea, he often displayed understanding […]
