FPI / May 15, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct U.S. President Donald Trump’s multi-day visit to the Middle East, which began on May 13, was the subject of headlines in Iranian state media amid growing optimism in Teheran about a series of indirect talks with an American leader who appears to be changing the strategic landscape in the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 14, 2025 Real World News On the second leg of what many are calling his golden tour of the Mideast, President Donald Trump on Wednesday secured an “economic exchange” of $1.2 trillion with Qatar, according to a White House fact sheet. A day after securing a $600 billion investment commitment in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 13, 2025 Real World News Soon after landing and being given the purple carpet treatment by his Saudi Arabia hosts, President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a massive Saudi investment deal, warned Iran to “make peace or else,” and said he would be lifting all sanctions on Syria. In a statement […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2025 Real World News Iran’s government has agreed to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons, a senior adviser and assistant to President Donald Trump said. Steve Witkoff told Breitbart News that Iran has informed him that they “don’t want” nukes. Witkoff is expected to meet with the Iranians in […]
FPI / April 30, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Pakistan, a country of 255 million people that has nuclear weapons, is facing a major problem at its border with Afghanistan. Pakistan’s version of the CIA, the ISI, has reportedly been riddled with Taliban assets for years while China has increasingly replaced the United States as its strategic partner. […]
FPI / April 24, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher One of China’s most effective stratagems is to create conflicts that promote divisions between countries or peoples, and then to exploit the ensuing tension to its benefit. This it has been using in the Middle East to displace American power. In Mid-April 2025 an American formation […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 24, 2025 The Four Horsemen of the apocalypse are stalking Sudan; Brutal civil conflict, widespread devastation, humanitarian disasters, and the displacement of millions of refugees. Now add the Fifth Horseman, the darkness of global indifference. In characterizing one of the world’s biggest conflicts, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 7, 2025 China’s growing naval power is regularly and systematically harassing the waters around Taiwan in what appears to be rehearsal exercises for a future invasion of the self-ruled democratic island. Units of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) as well as swarms of military aircraft regularly […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2025 Real World News Israel’s defense minister on Friday said his forces are prepared to systematically take Gaza one piece at a time. “If the Hamas terror organization continues to refuse to release the hostages, I have instructed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to capture additional areas, evacuate the population, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 23, 2025 Amidst the unpredictable arc of crisis shadowing the Middle East persists the systemic and sustained merchant shipping attacks in the Red Sea. The culprits are a shadowy but lethal Iranian proxy force, the Houthis, who use their control of mountainous parts of the Yemeni coast […]
