To adjoin assads forces. They have been bolstered by militiamen from iraq yemen afghanistan months others leaving some to refer to the regimes constellation of forces as irans foreign legion. Meanwhile heavily sunniarab northcentral region has come under the control of the diverse assortment of armed opposition groups including al qaeda affiliates and the Islamic State of iraq bolstered by fighters from the middle east to europe and even the United States. In the Kurdish North the offshoot of the Workers Party of the pkk has also dominated the scene and operates freely. Meanwhile attempts by major neighboring states and world powers to contain the crisis are under serious stress. Car bombs and violence threatening both the countrys fragile sectarian balance and jordans suffering the stress of a 615,000 official refugees is currently struggling to defend his territory from crossborder attacks. What is sometimes called the regions Security Architecture middle east postworld war i boundar
Specifically the art museum in berlin which is one of the areas things to go through in the world room by room. There is no provenance attached to any of those works of art. It is just artists, title, thats it. You dont know if it came from prussian state. You dont know which state or municipal gallery it came from. You dont know anything then thats the principle artist. Museum of germany. It is very very weird. Comments . Let me just contrast that with france. France had this socalled Art Collection which was essentially jewish art that they made minimal efforts to locate the owners but to their credit much more recently and after the Washington Trust what they did with their art is face and its and in fact it was the question whether the Jewish Community should claim that art and have a museum of their own and they said no it belongs to the french state but what we want and what we got was some history of what happened. It may save from an unknown jewish family that at least someone
In 1997 and 1998, he oversaw the production of two government report about Operation Safe haven and these reports were quickly produced ae not well received in some places. So, ambassador, can you tell us what prompted the Clinton Administration to want to have these reports produced, and what was the outcome of these reports . Well, first, robert has dope an enormous has done an enormous service through his book. But i want to try to put it in an even broader context, and that is its a great tribute not only to the Monuments Men, but to the United States army and the United States of america. Contrast this enormous effort to save Cultural Property, to get it returned to its rightful owners with the action of the soviet union coming from the east to berlin. Ask they were intent on doing just the opposite, stripping germany, stripping its museums of everything that they could that was movable, taking it back to russia as war Company Sauce for their enormous compensation for their enormo
Sea and redeployed for a Paratrooper Division is to poland for training and exercises this week the president announced a new commitment to reassure the European Security for the 1 billion fund that would allow us to keep equipment in europe and expand exercise of trading and to expand personnel to continuously rotate and increase assistance to ukraine moldova and georgia. It is vital day not be engaged alone and taken steps to encourage the partners to do the same to take part of deployment and irritation and we expect we can say all 28 members of nato participated. Then by the nato summit respect to see steps to reverse the decline that has characterizedny5b the alliance in recent years. So where do we go from here . First it is very important we get a grip to resolve the situation in eastern ukraine. And actively targeting and killing Ukrainian Security forces. You cannot have it both ways on the one hand take steps to deal escalate the crisis but at the same time under the surface
Operative tried to cross the southern border, contacted what he believed was a mexican drug cartel, turned out to be dea undercover operative in mexico. His intent was across the southern port every nefarious objects with him to assess and the ambassador from saudi arabia here in the city at a restaurant that you and i may have been attending that i. Thats the fact. I want to give an example. I will ask the experts on the panel to answer the question. I would reiterate what i stated earlier, that we do date dont have credible information that we are aware of other known or suspected tears coming across the border, particularly related to this threat stream. Mr. Milner, mr. Wyden, would you like to clarify what weve heard so far . Either the members of congress or from your copanelists. Yes, thank you, and building upon that, the number of known watchlist individuals that weve encountered at the ports, between the ports on the southwest border is minimal compared to what we see in comme