the area . " In a few days , they will bomb us , bomb everything and kill everything like yesterday , " said Ismail Abdullah . In early October , Putin exacerbated the rift over Syria by suspending a key post Cold - War agreement with Washington over disposal of nuclear weapons accusing the US of failing to eliminate tons of weapons - grade plutonium and “ unfriendly acts toward Russia . ”
The Newsweek attack comes about a week after KrebsOnSecurity , arguably the world ’s most intrepid source of security news , was briefly silenced . That attack was presumably the work of a handful of individuals who did n’t like a recent series of exposés written by reporter Brian Krebs . Ars described the incident and the record - breaking data assault that brought it on as “ a troubling new chapter in the short history of the Internet . ” In recent weeks , security experts have uncovered botnets made up of network - connected cameras and other “ Internet of Things ” devices capable of bombardingconflict.attack.naa target with more than a terabit per second of junk traffic . That ’s three times bigger than records set just three months ago . So far , there ’s no indication that the attacks on Newsweek are related to previous attacks or contained the same staggering amount of firepower .
Separately , rebel leaders told reporters that they would not accept emergency medical evacuations if food and medicine were not also delivered to people trapped inside . United Nations officials have said that forcing people to leave their homes in order to receive aid is against international law . But in practice , the government has taken back a number of areas with starve - or - surrender tactics , bombardingconflict.attack.naand starving people until they agree to leave . In any case , without guarantees and a halt to shelling and shooting by all sides , aid agencies can not begin to provide the medical evacuations and humanitarian aid deliveries to eastern Aleppo that United Nations officials said they would aim to carry out after Russia agreed to extend its cease - fire . Advertisement Continue reading the main story