Special to WorldTribune.com Col. Moammar Gadhafi warned Western powers that Libya would fall to Islamists if he were toppled from power, Gadhafi’s daughter, Aisha, said. “Libya has fallen into the tentacles of imperialism,” Aisha, who now resides in Algeria, said. “The state of the rats didn’t work. The rats don’t build, they eat each other,” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The U.S. State Department has in the past week warned U.S. citizens against travel to Turkey and Tunisia amid rising terrorist threats. On March 29, the State Department warned of “increased threats from terrorist groups throughout Turkey and to avoid travel to southeastern Turkey” near the Syrian border. Family members of U.S. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Warplanes struck an Al Qaida camp in southern Yemen on April 3, a local official said. The official said four air strikes targeted Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) near the port city of Mukalla on Yemen’s south coast. Several jihadists were killed and many more injured in the attack. Though […]
Special to WorldTribune.com President Barack Obama in 2012 rejected a covert CIA plan to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad that likely would have stopped the rise of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), former U.S. officials say. An upcoming book by a former CIA operative reveals the agency had forged a “muti-tiered plan” to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Syrian regime forces made a gruesome discovery after driving Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) from Palmyra. The soldiers uncovered a mass grave containing the remains of 42 people slaughtered by the terror group’s jihadists. The Syrian army “uncovered a mass grave of officers, soldiers, members of the popular committees (pro-regime […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steven Warren in Baghdad has put ISIL chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on notice. “I hope al Baghdadi watches these press conferences because I want him to know that we are hunting him and we will find him just like we found his mentor, Zarqawi, and killed him, just […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The modern day barbarians have been routed from the ancient city of Palmyra, but the destruction left in the wake of the nearly year long Islamic State occupation has been near catastrophic. After five years of conflict, war torn Syria sees the fruits of limited […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct The successful March 22 terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport and a city subway station add to Europe’s growing list of cities — including Paris, London and Copenhagen — unable to deflect such attacks. The terrorists appear to have been four young men with Middle Eastern backgrounds […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Human rights activists fear Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is preparing to execute the remaining Christians in the terror group’s Syrian stronghold at Raqqa. Syrian activists say ISIL has “issued a new decision” to block any Christians or Armenians from leaving its self-declared capital. The activists said about 25 Christian […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The huge drop in tourism following the terrorist attack that brought down a Russian airliner last October has weighed heavily on Egypt’s economy. Egypt’s deficit rose 240 percent in the first half of the current fiscal year due to falling tourism receipts, Suez Canal revenues, and transfers, the Central Bank of Egypt […]
