This document provides a weekly analysis of news from Ecuadorian peacekeeping school UEMPE for the week of August 25-29, 2014. It summarizes security, economic, political, and military news from Syria. On the security front, 43 Fijian UN soldiers were seized by rebels in the Golan Heights and 81 Philippine soldiers were trapped. Economically, the UN children's agency UNICEF deployed its largest ever aid operation, shipping over 1,000 metric tons of supplies to Iraq and Syria. Politically, US President Obama admitted having no strategy for confronting ISIS in Syria yet was preparing military options. Militarily, the US prepared for possible action against ISIS in Syria while the Syrian government said it would