out of the USSR . According to reporter Oren Nahari , the famed Mitrokhin archive , kept by KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin , reveals that Abbas was a KGB spy in Damascus in 1983 . The documents , obtained by Israeli researchers and scholars Isabela Ginor and Gideon Remez , are said to show that Abbas , who was code - named Krotov ( mole ) , worked under Mikhail Bodganov , who was then station posted in Damascus and is now a top Russian diplomat in the Middle East .
They typically obtained Russian visas in Damascus or Beirut – some even went so far as to enrol in a Russian university to get a student visa – then flew to Moscow and took a train to Murmansk . From there , it was about 130 miles from the Norwegian border , where they were placed in refugee camps . Although Russian business owners have reportedly been charging several hundred US dollars for a bicycle and a ride to the border , the route is still far cheaper than being smuggledmovement.transportartifact.naacross the Mediterranean . The two countries began bouncing refugees between them in November after Norway said it would send back asylum seekers with Russian residency permits , but Russia refused to take them . Svetlana Gannushkina , an immigration activist , said Syrians sent to Russia would not be deported but were unlikely to receive legal status .
Edith M. Lederer , The Associated Press Russia is accusing three Turkish foundations of supplying weapons and military equipment to Islamic State extremists in Syria and says $ 1.9 million worth of explosives and industrial chemicals were smuggledmovement.transportartifact.naacross Turkey 's border to extremist groups . Russia 's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said in a letter to the UN Security Council circulated Friday that Turkey is the main supplier of weapons and ammunition to IS fighters . He said the transfers are overseen by the country 's National Intelligence Organization and are delivered mainly by vehicles , " including as part of humanitarian convoys . "
2014 : ISIS marches into Raqqa and makes it the capital of the caliphate . Foto : Uncredited The two Syrian women who we shall call Om Omran and Om Mohammad , which are not their real names , were willing to wear Expressen 's hidden cameras , which have been smuggledmovement.transportartifact.nain . " We want the world to know , " they say . Over the course of several weeks , they have documented life in the completely isolated city of al - Raqqah .
I want to go out alone , free and without having a guardian with me . " " Nothing matters more than freedom , " says Om Mohammad . Oum Mohammad , whose real name is something else , smuggledmovement.transportartifact.naExpressen 's camera into al - Raqqah . Foto : Expressen " I long for when I can take off both the niqab and the darkness that it brings " , she says . Foto : Expressen She takes off ther coverture and says : " I long for when I can dress as I used to " .
Engels expected the papers to include evidence linking high - level Syrian officials to mass atrocities . After a decade spent training international criminal - justice practitioners in the Balkans , Afghanistan , and Cambodia , Engels now leads the regime - crimes unit of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability , an independent investigative body founded in 2012 , in response to the Syrian war . In the past four years , people working for the organization have smuggledmovement.transportartifact.namore than six hundred thousand government documents out of Syria , many of them from top - secret intelligence facilities . The documents are brought to the group ’s headquarters , in a nondescript office building in Western Europe , sometimes under diplomatic cover . There , each page is scanned , assigned a bar code and a number , and stored underground .
The crash has called into question Egypt 's drive to eradicate Islamist militancy and hurt its tourism industry , a cornerstone of the economy . Islamic State 's Egypt affiliate is waging an insurgency in parts of the Sinai , although mostly far from the tourist resorts along its Red Sea coast . Russia and Western countries have long said that they believe the flight was brought down by a bomb smuggledmovement.transportartifact.naon board . Egypt however has so far publicly said it has not found any evidence of foul play . Any formal charges or official Egyptian confirmation that a bomb brought down the Airbus A321 could potentially expose Egypt to compensation payments to the families of the victims .
In a strongly - worded statement , European football 's governing body said it would not hesitate to impose sanctions on either Russia or England should such violence occur again . Measures included the potential disqualification of their respective teams from the tournament , it said . Image copyright PA Image caption Some Russia supporters had smuggledmovement.transportartifact.nain flares which they set off at the end of the match Image copyright PA Image caption A number of Russia fans rushed towards England fans at the end of the match Image copyright AP Image caption Some wearing scarves over their faces , while others wore mouth guards and fighting gloves , one witness said
What can she say ? They would , of course , stone her to death , as the relationship is considered to be out of wedlock , " says Om Mohammad . Illegal , smuggledmovement.transportartifact.naabortion pills were her only chance . " We 've had to organise pills for her . Pills that cost us a lot of money to get them into al - Raqqah . "
That is the only conversation we should be having at this time , immigration security . Cut it off . Whether it 's dangerous materials being smuggledmovement.transportartifact.naacross the border , terrorists entering on visas or Americans losing their jobs to foreign workers , these are the problems we must now focus on fixing . And the media needs to begin demanding to hear Hillary Clinton 's answer on how her policies will affect Americans and their security . These are matters of life and death for our country and its people , and we deserve answers from Hillary Clinton .
But North Korean viewers wo n’t be getting anything close to what Netflix offers . That ’s right , The Interview , among other less controversial content , will not be landing on the service anytime soon . For movies made outside of North Korea , its citizens will have to continue to rely on smuggledmovement.transportartifact.namaterial from activists like this guy who ’s been using drones to carry USB drives loaded up with Western movies into the country . With its broadband infrastructure limited as well as tightly controlled , it ’s not clear how many people will actually be able to access Manbang . It ’s thought only a few thousand people in the country – population 25 million – have access to the internet , with special permission necessary needed to get online .