2015 GREATEST HITS, NO. 3: Saudi King Salman hospitalized after erratic behavior

2015 GREATEST HITS, NO. 3: Saudi King Salman hospitalized after erratic behavior

Special to WorldTribune.com Oct. 8: Saudi King Salman, said to suffer from dementia, was hospitalized after “he went crazy” and attempted to injure himself, sources said. Arabic-language al-Ahd news agency reported on Oct. 8 that the 79-year-old Salman was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) section of King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh. Sources […]

British marksman takes out 3 ISIL jihadists through 10-inch wall from kilometer away

British marksman takes out 3 ISIL jihadists through 10-inch wall from kilometer away

Special to WorldTribune.com Armed with the world’s most powerful rifle, a British sharpshooter killed three Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) terrorists through a 10-inch wall from a kilometer away, a report said. The Special Air Service (SAS) staff-sergeant fired 30 armor-piercing rounds from his Barrett Light .50 caliber rifle into a two-story command […]

Iran warns Saudi Arabia faces ‘divine vengeance’ for executions

Iran warns Saudi Arabia faces ‘divine vengeance’ for executions

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned Saudi Arabia of “divine vengeance” over the execution of an opposition Shi’ite cleric, while Riyadh accused Tehran of supporting terrorism — escalating their criticism of each other just hours after protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran. Saudi […]

2016: Light vs darkness, time to solve Syria, opportunity in Latin America, rising China threat

2016: Light vs darkness, time to solve Syria, opportunity in Latin America, rising China threat

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler NEW YORK — It’s time to consult the crystal snow globe for a look at both the likely and unexpected events which will shape the New Year. Serious strife both in the Middle East, and Africa to a lesser extent, have expanded leading to a culture of conflict […]

2015 GREATEST HITS, NO. 6: Special Report: Ready or not, the Paris jihad has begun, and will widen

2015 GREATEST HITS, NO. 6: Special Report: Ready or not, the Paris jihad has begun, and will widen

Special to WorldTribune.com “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.” — Barack Hussein Obama (address to the United Nations General Assembly, September 2012) By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Jan. 9: The jihadist murders at the French satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo, on […]

2015 GREATEST HITS, NO. 21 – New leader of Free World gives the speech an American president should have made

2015 GREATEST HITS, NO. 21 – New leader of Free World gives the speech an American president should have made

Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto Israel will fight Iran alone, if it must. That is the striking message Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered to a joint session of Congress, garnering thunderous applause and numerous standing ovations. The historic speech rebukes the appeasement foreign policy of President Obama. It recalls the battle of Chamberlain […]

The Trump ‘chaos’: America needs hope and change now more than ever

The Trump ‘chaos’: America needs hope and change now more than ever

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sheda Vasseghi What does chaos theory have to do with Donald Trump and are both just what America needs at this moment in history? In his Sept. 29, 2015, article, Mark Leibovich of The New York Times Magazine refers to the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as “a kind of one-man […]

A brief tutorial for The Guardian’s anonymous correspondent in Iran

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sheda Vasseghi If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (1835-1910) In response to the unnamed Tehran Bureau correspondent of The Guardian and his/her June 17, 2015 article, the following: In a “conceptual” post-Information Age, the anonymous correspondent from The Guardian […]

A brief tutorial for The Guardian’s anonymous correspondent in Iran

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sheda Vasseghi If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (1835-1910) In response to the unnamed Tehran Bureau correspondent of The Guardian and his/her June 17, 2015 article, the following: In a “conceptual” post-Information Age, the anonymous correspondent from The Guardian […]

New leader of Free World: Netanyahu gives the speech an American president should have made

New leader of Free World: Netanyahu gives the speech an American president should have made

Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto Israel will fight Iran alone, if it must. That is the striking message Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered to a joint session of Congress, garnering thunderous applause and numerous standing ovations. The historic speech rebukes the appeasement foreign policy of President Obama. It recalls the battle of Chamberlain […]