by WorldTribune Staff, July 10, 2017 Iraq’s prime minister on July 9 said Mosul has been liberated after a 9-month battle with Islamic State (ISIS). After ISIS took control of Mosul in June 2014 following the Obama administration’s pullout of U.S. forces, local Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fought ferociously to block the terror group from advancing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 10, 2017 Police in Berlin are investigating a series of assaults tied to a large mob of Islamists who are openly enforcing Sharia law in Germany’s capital. Witnesses say Salafists from Chechnya, a predominantly Sunni Muslim region in Russia, are circulating a chilling video on social media and other threats of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 10, 2017 A trio of media moguls with a combined net worth of $222 billion, saying they can’t compete with Google in an “economically squeezed news industry,” are asking for the assistance of Congress in their fight with the Internet giant. The newspaper owners who are “pleading poverty” are The Washington […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 10, 2017 A lawyer for ex-sailor Kristian Saucier, serving time in prison for taking photos of classified sections of a submarine, believes the “Deep State” had a hand in the Justice Department’s rejection of Saucier’s use of the “Hillary Clinton defense.” Saucier, a machinist mate 1st class, was sentenced to a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 10, 2017 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s rewarding of $8 million in cash and a formal apology to a terrorist who attacked a compound in Afghanistan where Americans and Canadians were serving is “something a traitor would do,” a U.S. soldier who was wounded by the terrorist said. Layne Morris, who […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 9, 2017 U.S President Donald Trump, in a landmark speech in Poland last week, challenged the West to confront threats to its values posed not only by radical Islam but by uncontrolled “government bureaucracy that drains the vitality and wealth of the people.” “Our own fight for the West does not […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 9, 2017 The Senate Judiciary Committee reportedly has received new information with direct relevance to its investigation of former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s involvement in the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Included in the new evidence is a document showing Lynch informed the political director of Clinton’s presidential campaign that FBI agents […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 9, 2017 As world powers gathered in Hamburg, Germany for the G20, Pope Francis aired his concerns that migrants “are drawn to the continents and countries of ancient wealth … especially Europe.” In an interview with Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, an avowed atheist, Francis said that “colonialism began in Europe. There […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler NEW YORK — We have seen this movie before and it never ends well. An arrogant and boastful dictator snubs the world and threatens his neighbors. The international community frets in rightful indignation but does little to respond. As tensions rise, the world appears hostage to a bully. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 9, 2017 Four ex-members of Hamas were part of a group of Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists that carried out coordinated attacks in Sinai on July 7 that killed at least 23 Egyptian soldiers, an Israeli defense official said. The four were previously members of Hamas’s military wing, but had left the […]
