Epstein Secrets

ng Israel's frontier with Syria and Lebanon after Lebanon's Hezbollah militia said a fighter was killed in an apparent Israeli strike on the edge of Damascus last week." The Israeli military has since "boosted its forces on its northern front." An Israeli military spokeswoman "said on Sunday that an Isra

in, Subscription Publication, 7.57M) reports Russian military contractors have seized control of two of Libya's largest oil facilities. In response, the US Treasury Department cited Russian involvement in Libya in a new round of sanctions applied in July to a Russian businessman with ties to President Vladimir Putin. The

es they were promised." The women "are often imprisoned in their employers' homes, and those who have escaped have fled to the Philippine Embassy in Damascus, where some of them say that about 35 women are now seeking shelter, unable to return home." THE BIG PICTURE Headlines From Today's Front Pages.

n Publication, 8.41M) reported that as part of the National Defense Authorization Act extending the Bank Secrecy Act to antiquities market dealers, the US Treasury Department will propose new rules to extend those anti-money- laundering requirements. Chicago Sun-Times: Documents On Black Panthers Killing Shows Need For Po

uch less fulfilled, notwithstanding administration pronouncements that the eleven-country "Geneva process" will effect a governmental transition in Damascus. The Atlantic Council's Fred Hof has posed asuestion that many Syrians are surely asking as well: has the US made Bashar al-Assad "an irreplaceabl

rest of their citizens but enriched the leadership circle, who exacted higher rents on the basic commodities they alone could smuggle in. Kudos to the US Treasury Department for locating and constricting the key transactional nodes through which Iran's economy connects to the world. Yet the tool of economic sanctions ag