Epstein Secrets

scribed how ordinary Syrians with no links to the civil war are forced to eat stray dogs and cats to survive a campaign of deprivation waged by the Assad regime. The world already knows that Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons, indiscriminate bombing, arbitrary detentions, rape, and torture aga

o the civil war are forced to eat stray dogs and cats to survive a campaign of deprivation waged by the Assad regime. The world already knows that Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons, indiscriminate bombing, arbitrary detentions, rape, and torture against his own citizens. What is far less well known, a

sian military for support and we survived. So, there is no end to life. You can live with different circumstances." More recently, Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy asserted that Egypt's decision- EFTA00694515 making "will not be affected by US decisions regarding aid," and admitted that the bilateral relation

ffective in Libya. Instead, it embraced an effort to arm the self-evidently ineffective and incoherent opposition in its doomed effort to overthrow Bashar al-Assad. The administration said Assad's fall was inevitable but refused to make it so. Thousands died as Washington fiddled; instability and violence spre

n effort to arm the self-evidently ineffective and incoherent opposition in its doomed effort to overthrow Bashar al-Assad. The administration said Assad's fall was inevitable but refused to make it so. Thousands died as Washington fiddled; instability and violence spread into Lebanon, Iraq and Jorda

d a Wave of Cyberattacks Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger Article 2. AI-Monitor Egypt's Morsi Gets Marks for Speed, Not Style in Foreign Policy Nabil Fahmy Article 3. Asharq Alawsat American election: It is not the economy, stupid! Amir Taheri Article 4. The Daily Star New hope, and fears, in the Ar

le, including by the repeated use of chemical weapons, and yet has remarkably culminated in the re- legitimization of the person responsible for it, Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian civil war— particularly the White House's inept and improvisational response to it—has accidentally transformed Putin into a major powe

military aid to moderate groups in the Syrian opposition, enough to raise their hopes but not enough to ensure success on the battlefield. And when Assad used chemical weapons against civilian neighborhoods, Obama threatened military action — only to back off, again dashing the hopes of pro-U.S. fact

sume its status as the leading Arab nation and help Russia restore its influence in the Middle East." Not for nothing did Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy choose Moscow instead of Washington as the destination for his first overseas trip after being appointed by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's new junt

stance itself to some extent from Washington. In some areas, notably in calls for the international community to offer substantive aid to the anti- Assad opposition in Syria, the Morsi government found itself in partial agreement with U.S. policy preferences. However, there were also troubling signs

this point, a prolonged stalemate is the only outcome that would not be damaging to American interests. Indeed, it would be disastrous if President Bashar al-Assad's regime were to emerge victorious after fully suppressing the EFTA_R1_00441201 EFTA01964453 rebellion and restoring its control over the entire c

ernment spokesmen insist that every individual, including Mr. Morsi, will be tried by a court and released if acquitted. "It is up to the courts," Nabil Fahmy, the interim foreign minister, said in a recent interview. All will be handled "in accordance with the rule of law," he said. But some of the rece