<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Potential to Cause Turmoil

What We’re Following

Syria’s Crisis: President Bashar al-Assad’s forces resumed their attack on the rebel-held suburb of eastern Ghouta, just a day after the United Nations called for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria. Russia, which is allied with the Assad regime, was responsible for delaying the ceasefire resolution—but U.S. policy in Syria may be partly to blame for the continued devastation.

Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee that the FBI used to apply for a warrant to surveil the former Trump-campaign aide Carter Page. The release of the memo, which rebuts Republican allegations of FBI misconduct, followed a week of new developments in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Mueller’s findings—in particular, his plea deal with Rick Gates, one of —put serious pressure on Manafort, and Yet the implications of Russian interference extend —and concern over the possibility of collusion obscures the scandalous nature of about the president’s team.