A Secretary in the Political section of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was arrested and held for at time in that city on charges that he attempted to recruit a member of the Russian Intelligence Services on Monday.
Reports coming from several global Internet monitoring sites say that Syria went dark on Tuesday night(10:45am Tuesday Alaska time) as service to Internet and cell phones became non-existant.
Two days after its attack on a warehouse near Damascus, Israel launched yet another air attack on the areas around the Syrian capital on Sunday.
For a second time this year, Israel has launched an air attack on suspected weapons in Syria. On Friday, Israeli jets over Lebanon let loose stand-off bombs at a building in Damascus and is suspected of hitting surface-to-surface Fateh-110 missiles stored there.