U.S. missile strike on Syria punctuated Trump talks with China’s Xi on North Korea

U.S. missile strike on Syria punctuated Trump talks with China’s Xi on North Korea

by WorldTribune Staff, April 7, 2017 U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian airbase came as President Donald Trump and China leader Xi JInping, meeting for the first time, were discussing what should be done about North Korea’s development of weapons of mass destruction. China did not immediately respond to President Donald Trump’s retaliatory strike on […]

In Iran, emerging hard-liner stakes future on unseating Rouhani

In Iran, emerging hard-liner stakes future on unseating Rouhani

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty After weeks of speculation, Ebrahim Raisi, the head of Iran’s wealthiest state charity, has officially announced his intention to run in the country’s presidential vote next month. His candidacy could galvanize conservatives and pose a serious challenge to President Hassan Rohani, who campaigned in 2013 on […]

National security team unified on attack from U.S. missile destroyers that killed 7

National security team unified on attack from U.S. missile destroyers that killed 7

by WorldTribune Staff, April 7, 2017 A little more than 24 hours after convening his National Security Council (NSC), President Donald Trump ordered the missile strike on an airfield from which Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces had earlier in the week launched a chemical weapons attack. “Everybody agreed that this was the option that they […]

Israel: Syria strike ‘restored American regional leadership in a big way’

Israel: Syria strike ‘restored American regional leadership in a big way’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 7, 2017 U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian air base on April 6 “restored America’s regional leadership in a big way,” an Israeli cabinet member said. “There are things that only the number one superpower in the world can do,” Yisrael Katz, Israel’s Transportation Minister and a member of the cabinet’s […]

U.S. missile strike on Syrian air base signals dramatic shift in Middle East policy

U.S. missile strike on Syrian air base signals dramatic shift in Middle East policy

Special to WorldTribune.com Special Report by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct.com President Donald Trump has backed up remarks about his revulsion at the Syrian military’s use of sarin gas that killed some 100 civilians and injured scores more by ordering a large cruise missile attack against the Syrian air base from where the attack was launched. […]

Fifty shades of green: Today Islam, earlier Stalin, later a new Genghis Khan

Fifty shades of green: Today Islam, earlier Stalin, later a new Genghis Khan

Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy “Progressive man” refuses to recognize the crimes of Islam, not because he is naive, fine-tempered or tolerant. He does it because, unconsciously or subconsciously, he has already accepted Islam as a religion of salvation. Just as he accepted Stalinism, Hitlerism, Maoism and the “Khmer Rouge” before it… Joseph de […]

Surviving as a Trump supporter in Cali: ‘Keep your head down’, get ‘a big German shepherd’

Surviving as a Trump supporter in Cali: ‘Keep your head down’, get ‘a big German shepherd’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2017 The first rule of being a Trump supporter in California is not to talk about being a Trump supporter in California. For those who dare to go public in their backing of the 45th president, one supporter has the following advice – get a big dog. “Living behind the […]

Egypt’s Sisi hails President Trump: ‘Nothing better than to counter evil’

Egypt’s Sisi hails President Trump: ‘Nothing better than to counter evil’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump has a “true understanding” of Mideast terrorism and what it takes to defeat it, Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi said on April 5. “There is a true understanding of realities in the region,” Sisi told Fox News in an interview, following his meeting with Trump […]

N. Korean cyber thiefs targeting banks, casinos worldwide

N. Korean cyber thiefs targeting banks, casinos worldwide

by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2017 A North Korean hacking group, known as Lazarus, has launched a global digital robbery ring that is targeting banks, casinos and trading firms dealing in digital currency, a group of cyber forensics analysts said. A report released this week by Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based cybersecurity and virus protection firm, […]

Mar-a-lago menu: THAAD and Kim Jong-UN; Powerpoints and hot air

Mar-a-lago menu: THAAD and Kim Jong-UN; Powerpoints and hot air

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk From the outset, the idea of implanting a Star Wars weapon capable of zapping an enemy missile 150 kilometers above the earth’s surface had to be controversial. The real problem from the South Korean viewpoint initially was, what for ― what we really need are short and mid-range missiles […]