The FBI has released CCTV video footage of Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis as he proceeded to kill twelve people and injure many more.
The Syrian rebels have long felt deserted by the international community who have stood by and let Assad’s superior military force leave many of those fighting for a secular democracy dead.
Syria has reportedly given Russia “material evidence” that opposition fighters have used chemical weapons during the ongoing civil war.
The gunman who died in a gun battle with police after killing 12 people and injuring eight others in the Washington Navy Yard yesterday has been identified as former US Navy serviceman Aaron Alexis.
As Russia and the United States, and their respective allies, lock horns at the G20 and in the UN Security Council and perhaps eventually find a face-saving way out of their self-inflicted paralysis, the dynamic of the Syrian civil war has long taken a direction that will see neither of them as a winner.