Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — A U.S. court has ruled against Iran and Syria in a lawsuit brought by the families of victims of a bombing in Israel in 2006. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth awarded $323 million to the families of 11 Americans and Israelis killed in a 2006 bombing in Tel Aviv. The [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — The Al Qaida leadership in Yemen was said to have been hit hard by U.S. air strikes. Yemeni sources said up to eight senior operatives of Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula were killed in air strikes in the southern province of Abyan. The sources said AQAP leaders who were [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Despite international naval patrols, Somali piracy continues in the Gulf region. Somali pirates hijacked an oil tanker in the Arabian Sea 630 kilometers from the coast of Oman on May 10. The Liberian-flagged Smyrni, operated by a Greek company, was carrying 135,000 tons of oil and said to have [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Bedouins have begun using rocket-propelled grenades in attacks on Egyptian security forces in the Sinai Peninsula. Security sources said Bedouin fighters believed linked to Al Qaida have deployed RPGs in attacks in central and eastern Sinai. The sources said the fighters were targeting security facilities, including police stations and checkpoints. [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel has raised the prospect of conducting cyber warfare to stop attacks from neighboring Egypt. Officials said the Israeli intelligence community and military have been drafting options to counter Palestinian and Al Qaida-aligned attacks from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The officials said Sinai was becoming a launching pad for Hamas, [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Al Qaida has developed a bomb that could penetrate U.S. security and blow up aircraft. Officials said Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula assembled a bomb that did not contain metal and could be worn as underwear. They said AQAP had planned to send an operative with the underwear improvised [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — For the first time since their deployment more than 30 years ago, members of an international peacekeeping force have been abducted in Egypt. Egyptian security sources said Bedouins linked to Al Qaida have been targeting officers of the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Peninsula. The sources said 10 [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD — Iraq has ordered the release of a commander of the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah. An Iraqi court has ordered the release of Hizbullah commander Ali Mussa Daqduq for lack of evidence. On May 7, the court determined insufficient evidence against Daqduq, charged with plotting to kill four U.S. soldiers in the Shi’ite [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Yemeni security sources said the U.S. military has killed a key fighter of Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. The sources identified the dead commander as Fahd Al Quso, killed in a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle strike on May 6. “The attack took place in a location targeted by the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has determined that hundreds of millions of dollars in government funding was relayed to militias in Iraq. A U.S. government report asserted that 10 percent of $4 billion in relief and reconstruction aid was siphoned to unidentified Iraqi militias, including tribal groups. The report, quoting U.S. commanders, [...]
