by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2016 A prominent pro-Egyptian government cleric has lived to see another day after being targeted for assassination in a Cairo suburb on Aug. 4. Gunmen hiding in a park opened fire on former Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, who was his way to a mosque near his home. The gunmen missed […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2016 An alliance of anti-Assad rebels and jihadist groups dealt a major setback to the Russian-backed Syrian regime on Aug. 5 by breaking a three-week siege on Aleppo. Despite more than 600 Russian airstrikes, the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad “were not able to hold on to their positions,” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2016 A rocket launcher, grenades and numerous rifle rounds were among U.S. military equipment Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) claims to have confiscated in Afghanistan. ISIL circulated photos of the U.S. gear, which included a M72 single-shot rocket launcher and a spare barrel for an M240 machine gun, 40mm […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 5, 2016 U.S. politicians and media are seemingly oblivious to what Russia has in its sights – “nothing less than the democratic fabric of American society and the integrity of the system of Western liberal values,” the former head of Estonia’s intelligence service said. Writing for the European edition of Politico, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 5, 2016 Iranian authorities were awaiting the arrival of another plane before they released four Americans, one of the hostages said. Saeed Abedini said on the Aug. 4 broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan” that on the night in January he was freed, his Iranian […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 5, 2016 Two mysterious deaths, the July 8 murder of a young Democratic staffer, and the Aug. 2 death of a man who served lawsuit papers to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), have stirred up a slew of conspiracy rumors on the web. Shawn Lucas, the man who served papers to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 5, 2016 Some 75,000 Syrian refugees trapped on the border with Jordan received emergency food supplies on Aug. 4 from UN aid agencies. Heads of the World Food Program, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the children’s agency UNICEF and the International Organization for Migration said the delivery of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 5, 2016 Iran has executed a gay teenager who was convicted as a juvenile of “forced male-to-male anal intercourse,” Amnesty International reported. Hassan Afshar, 19, was hanged in Arak Prison in Iran’s Markazi Province on July 18. Amnesty said Iranian authorities received a complaint accusing Afshar and two other adolescents of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 5, 2016 The “number one” leader of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) Sinai affiliate was killed in an Egyptian airstrike, a spokesman for Egypt’s military said. Abu Duaa al-Ansari was killed in an operation south of the Egyptian coastal city of El-Arish that also killed more than 45 other […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 4, 2016 Employees at the IRS’s Cincinnati office said that the agency “deliberately” delayed processing Tea Party tax exemption applications until after the 2012 presidential election, Judicial Watch reported on Aug. 1. According to 105 pages of newly obtained FBI “302” documents, interviews with numerous Cincinnati IRS employees in mid-2013 show […]
