Epstein Secrets

ministration 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 Jordan; and U.S. weapons leaked into terrorist hands. Now civil war has virtually engulfed the most strategic region in the world, making

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

Daily Star, and Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon. Article 3 Project-Syndicate Middle East Frenemies Bernard Haykel & Daniel Kurtzer Dec 13, 2013 -- Princeton — The recent interim nuclear agreem

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

have become key factors in the fighting, and Mr. Assad's triumph would dramatically affirm the power and prestige of Shiite Iran and Hezbollah, its Lebanon-based proxy — posing a direct threat both to the Sunni Arab states and to Israel. But a rebel victory would also be extremely dangerous for the Un

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