Headlines:• Obama uses Russia and then blames it for Atrocities in Aleppo• FBI agrees with CIA over Russian hack of American presidential election• Pentagon demands return of American drone captured by Chinese in South China Sea

British transport police were reportedly called to a London railway “station at 1:18pm” on the 12th of December, 2016, “after receiving reports that a man had been assaulted on a train. The man, who is in his 40s, was taken to hospital with injuries consistent with having been stabbed.

11th December 2016: After Aleppo, Syria's Assad still far from regaining his state.When President Bashar al-Assad turns from the wreckage of Aleppo to assert his authority across a fractured Syria, it will be as a figure who is virtually unassailable by rebels, but still faces great challenges in restoring the power of his state.

Headlines: German Minister Sparks Outrage after Refusing to Wear Hijab during Saudi Arabia visit Our Security Relationship far Wider with India than Pakistan: US Envoy Chinese Muslim Website Blocked after Xi Jinping Letter