Epstein Secrets

— underscores the kingdom's pivot to the east. Long before the American pivot, Saudi Arabia has reoriented its economic and political priorities to South and East Asia. Salman arrived in Beijing on March 13 for his first visit to China. Last month, the crown prince visited Pakistan, Japan, India and

weapons, he wants to take the fight against the extremists east, to the northern suburbs of Aleppo and eventually the eastern cities of la qah and Deir al-Zour. Maarouf, 39, is an example of the younger generation of commanders in the bottom-up Syrian revolution. The previous Free Syrian Army leader in th

long-overdue volte-face. To prevent this change, they are trying to find non-existent external threats — or not to counter their emergence from the South, especially as it has no capabilities to do that. Russia is warned that it may lose its positions in the Middle East. Simultaneously, it is repeate

forced into hiding. However, any doubts he had harboured prior to jumping ship had gone after a final visit he made a month ago to his home city of Deir al-Zour, near the Iraqi-Syrian border. "There was tremendous destruction there and thousands of people had been killed, many of them from my tribe," he sa

Meanwhile, the Philippines are likely to become America's most important partner in a separate, but similar, conflict over disputed islands in the South China Sea. Some 40 percent of international maritime trade passes through those contested waters. EFTA00636720 Washington and Manila have been n

ther 15,000 fighters support the group "out of fear or greed." These include fighters from 14 Sunni tribes in the Raqqah area and eight tribes from Deir al-Zour, both in the northeast. "ISIS employs the policy of kidnapping in the areas in which it is deployed," warns the intelligence report. The group's p