[Marc] Frons also said the attack was carried out by the Syrian Electronic Army “or someone trying very hard to be them.” The SEA, a group of hackers who support Syrian President Bashar Assad, have organized and carried out online attacks on prominent websites in recent months…

The strikes would instead be aimed at military units that have carried out chemical attacks, the headquarters overseeing the effort and the rockets and artillery that have launched the attacks, according to the options being reviewed within the administration…

Having done business there before, he was not prepared for the ploy that recently occurred at what he had come to consider to be a reputable major local dealer.

HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Editorial: (++) Tens of millions of dollars in parking assets (garages, lots and street meters) stay in city ownership and produce millions in ongoing revenue for the city.

Part of the plan involves selling the city’s municipal trash incinerator, whose debt dragged the city to the brink of bankruptcy.

… In 1988, during the waning days of Iraq’s war with Iran, the United States learned through satellite imagery that Iran was about to gain a major strategic advantage by exploiting a hole in Iraqi defenses. U.S. intelligence officials conveyed the location of the Iranian troops to Iraq, fully aware that Hussein’s military would attack with chemical weapons, including sarin, a lethal nerve agent.

FINANCIAL TIMES: John Kerry, the US secretary of state, said Bashar al Assad’s responsibility for the use of chemical weapons was “undeniable”, lifting the likelihood of an imminent punitive military attack against the Syrian regime in response.

PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Column: He lives in a place named for his family, in an 1850s house built by his family, and runs a company started by his family in 1843. He has an Ivy League (Dartmouth) undergrad degree, a master’s from the University of London and a doctorate from MIT.

PA Gov. Tom Corbett could bull through a transportation funding bill when the General Assembly returns to Harrisburg in late September, but two outcomes are certain.

Zurichers are so fed up with streetwalkers they voted last year to ban them from the city center and build steamy shake shacks in a far-off industrial zone.

The revival of family reunions after a three-year hiatus is expected to further accelerate the rival Korean governments’ move toward a thaw after months of high tensions.

Now, the dismantling of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood by the new military-backed government that ousted the Islamist president has Hamas reeling without crucial economic and diplomatic support. Over the past two weeks, a “crisis cell” of ministers has met daily.