Reps. Tlaib, Omar hit Israel from D.C. in wake of rocket attacks from Gaza

Reps. Tlaib, Omar hit Israel from D.C. in wake of rocket attacks from Gaza

by WorldTribune Staff, May 6, 2019 The more than 20 Democratic Party candidates for the 2020 presidential nomination remained mostly silent as hundreds of rockets were launched at Israel over the weekend. Meanwhile, while omitting the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorism part, U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar issued tweets blasting Israel amid some […]

Egypt bans loudspeakers at mosques during Taraweeh prayers

Egypt bans loudspeakers at mosques during Taraweeh prayers

by WorldTribune Staff, May 24, 2017 The Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments has banned mosques from using external loudspeakers during Taraweeh prayers. Taraweeh is a special prayer recited only during the Muslim festival of Ramadan that is read following the fifth prayer of the day. Religious Endowments Minister Mokhtar Gomaa said the rationale for the […]

Iraqi army pushing into last ISIS-held areas of Mosul

Iraqi army pushing into last ISIS-held areas of Mosul

by WorldTribune Staff, May 11, 2017 After recent gains in Mosul’s north, Iraqi government forces are squeezing Islamic State (ISIS) into an ever smaller area and hope to liberate the city “within days,” reports said. Iraqi Lt. Gen. Othman al-Ghanimi told the BBC he hoped ISIS would be defeated in Mosul before the Islamic holy […]

ISIL’s multi-pronged terror strikes kill 89 in 3 countries

ISIL’s multi-pronged terror strikes kill 89 in 3 countries

by WorldTribune Staff, June 29, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), which promised to unleash mass casualty attacks during the holy month of Ramadan, is suspected of carrying out terror strikes in Turkey, Yemen and Lebanon over a two-day period that left at least 89 people dead and wounded hundreds more. Turkish officials […]

Egypt, in goodwill test for Hamas, reopens border crossing at Rafah

Egypt, in goodwill test for Hamas, reopens border crossing at Rafah

by WorldTribune Staff, June 2, 2016 In a good faith gesture ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Egypt on June 1 temporarily reopened the Rafah border crossing at Gaza. The crossing has been all but sealed off since a terrorist attack in the Sinai Peninsula in October 2014 in which Egypt said Hamas […]