Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey, unable to halt anti-government protests, has threatened to deploy the Army to restore order. Officials said the government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has examined the feasibility of deploying Turkey’s huge Army, the second largest in NATO, to quell nationwide protests. They said Turkish police, despite the arrest of [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey Recently much has been made of the so-called “Arc of Shi’ism”, from Lebanon to Iran, through Syria and Iraq. I submit that what is more significant is the much broader and longer “Arc of Chaos”, from Tunisia to Pakistan. Of this huge chunk of the world, and in the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran’s next president is a cleric regarded as an ally of supreme leader Ali Khamenei. The Teheran regime has named Hassan Rowhani Iran’s next president. The Interior Ministry said the 64-year-old Rowhani won 18.6 million votes, or more than 50 percent, in elections held on June 14. “This victory is [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory R. Copley, Global Information System/Defense & Foreign Affairs Egypt’s Morsi government has initiated a return to covert war against Ethiopia, which controls the source of the Blue Nile, Egypt’s and Sudan’s principal source of water. The result will almost certainly lead to an increased level of insecurity in the strategic Red [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel has begun preparing for the prospect of a victory by Syrian President Bashar Assad over Sunni rebels. Officials said the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been briefed of the likelihood of an Assad victory that would end the more than two-year revolt in Syria. The officials [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — A key Israeli official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces increasing opposition to any cooperation with the United States for the establishment of a Palestinian state over the next year. Netanyahu told parliament on June 6 he receives telephone calls “several times a week” from U.S. Secretary of State John [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — For the first time, longtime supporters of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan have joined anti-government protests in Turkey. Political sources and analysts have reported the increasing presence of voters of Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party, known as AKP, at anti-government rallies. They said both voters as well as Erdogan’s allies [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s leadership is concerned about what the defeat of Sunni rebels by Syrian President Bashar Assad would mean. Officials said Israel’s intelligence community was closely following the Assad offensive against Sunni rebels in the spring of 2013. They said the community envisioned that a victorious Assad could be emboldened [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey’s Islamist government has faced the greatest unrest in its more than decade-long rule. Tens of thousands of people have fought Turkish police and security forces in 235 reported protests throughout the country in what has turned into a campaign to oust Prime Minister Recep Erdogan. Officials acknowledged that this [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — After two years of civil war, support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad was said to have sharply increased. NATO has been studying data that told of a sharp rise in support for Assad. The data, compiled by Western-sponsored activists and organizations, showed that a majority of Syrians [...]
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