Epstein Secrets

to persuade Assad to allow more goods into beleaguered areas. Assad has recently offered Moscow to allow goods into some encircled areas including Aleppo but only if there is a ceasefire. The rebels have looked with justifiable suspicion at the government's behavior on this score. Even if Geneva pro

ma." To be sure, Truman had no regrets about Israel after he left office. Israeli Prime Minister Ben Gurion recounted how when, during a meeting in New York in 1961, he praised the former president for his "constant sympathy with our aims in Israel ... tears suddenly sprang to his eyes." But in the year

ed Hasan Nasrallah, a seemingly die-hard supporter of the Assad regime, appealed for calm when some of his Shiite co-religionists were kidnapped in Aleppo while on their way to Lebanon from a pilgrimage in Iran. Still, despite its current attempts to stay out of the Syrian conflict, one should not di

om a friend; that "spear phishing" attack started a cascade of calamities in which the cyberinvader made his way into the computer systems that run New York's electric grid. The city was plunged into darkness; no one could find the problem, much less fix it. Chaos, and deaths, followed. The administration

passes to a group known as Unit 450, which coordinates logistics for chemical weapons, and to individual geographic commands, such as Unit 416 for Aleppo and Unit 417 for Damascus. When handling the weapons, Sakat said he was instructed to use a simple word-substitution code, known as the "Khaled 4"

issues will dominate this week's annual summit of world leaders as the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) kicks off its sixty-eighth session in New York. The first is Syria, whose government must begin to deliver on commitments to eliminate its chemical weapons, even as its civil war grinds on. The