Special to WorldTribune, February 9, 2025 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford Turkey is embarked on resurrecting the Ottoman Empire under the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Now, under Erdogan, secular Turkey is becoming an autocratic Islamic state. Erdogan is fostering Islamic (Sharia) law and persecuting Christians, Shiites, Alevis, and Kurds. Freedoms of speech and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, January 20, 2025 A series of widening wars, growing humanitarian crises and simmering foreign conflicts are among the list of foreign policy/security woes confronting President Donald Trump. From day one of his administration the president must assess and prioritize U.S. policy interests in key regions both on the […]
Special to WorldTribune, December 25, 2024 “Gaius Octavius was born in 63 B.C. in Rome” noted John Coleman, a Fox News contributor about the towering contemporary of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. “When his maternal great uncle, Julius Caesar, was assassinated for subverting the Roman Republic, the young Octavian, only 18 at the time, became his […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, December 24, 2024 The extraordinary and fast-moving events in Syria have gripped the world. What was viewed as a forgotten, forsaken and frozen conflict churning on for nearly fourteen years, has suddenly jumped into the headlines to round out this tumultuous year. Syria at long last has been […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 16, 2024 Real World News Has the fall of the 20-year reign of dictator Bashar Assad enticed Syrians in Europe to return home? It doesn’t look that way. In fact, Syrian refugees in Europe are so used to soaking up Western welfare that they are quite content to stay put. Now […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, December 13, 2024 The Assad family dictatorship which has run Syria for 53 years and has withstood 13 years of bitter civil war, has now collapsed in just over a week. A sweeping series of Islamic rebel attacks starting in late November, captured key cities from Aleppo in […]
FPI / December 11, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct Soon after Abu Mohammed Al-Golani formed the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militant group, he took to wearing business attire often instead of his usual military garb. After HTS toppled Syrian dictator Bashar Assad on Dec. 8, Al-Golani referred to himself with his real name, Ahmad al-Sharaa. The newly-transformed leader […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 8, 2024 Real World News Syrian rebels led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) captured Damascus on Sunday, forcing dictator Bashar Assad to flee the country. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump posted to social media: “Assad is gone” and “Syria is a mess” but “is not our friend” and “this […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 8, 2024 Real World News After his rebel army had taken Aleppo, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani appeared to reassure the city’s dwindling Christian community that it would endure. “Aleppo has always been a meeting point for civilizations and cultures, and it will remain so, with a long […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 12, 2024 The attack on Tower 22 was a accident waiting to happen. And it did. But then following the deadly drone assault on this exposed U.S. base in Jordan killing three soldiers, the clock started ticking. Unleashing massive American retaliatory airstrikes responding to the Iranian militia […]
