Half years after we handed over security to the country to iraqs military, two and a half years after president obama said our war in iraq was ending iraq is once again the focus of our military and our commander in chief. Just hours after president obama announced we were returning to an active role in iraq, the u. S. Launched two rounds of air strikes yesterday against isis fighters near erbil. The u. S. Has a consulate in that Northern Iraqi city and thousands of americans live there. In addition to those military strikes the u. S. Is trying to keep a humanitarian crisis from worsening. The u. S. Military conducted a secondary drop of food and water late last night to thousands of members of the yazidi religious minority who have been trapped on mount sinjar for days and are surrounded by isis militants. The situation might be worse for hundreds of yazidi women. Militants are holding them kapt of at schools in mosul. He told the a. P. By now consider them slaves and have vicious pla
While the liberal media predictably focus on the domestic political ramifications for President Obama as regards his strange and ever-evolving policy on Syria, the real story worth reporting is how Obama may actually be strengthening Bashar Assad's hand, even making him "a national hero" who can not only survive but thrive as a result. In her September 12 front-page story "Syrian Rebels Hurt By Delay," The Wall Street Journal's Nour Malas has an excellent story to that effect. Filing from Istanbul, she quotes Mohammmed al-Daher, "a commander in the rebels' Western backed Free Syria Army" as lamenting that he "wouldn't be surprised if the end result of these negotiations is that [Assad] remains as president and beyond that, turns into a national hero who saved his country." Malas continued (emphasis mine):
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Business and Technology Editor Ben Muessig made the following announcement.
We are thrilled to announce that Nour Malas has joined the Los Angeles Times as a deputy editor for Business. In her new role, Malas will lead a team focused on income inequality and help develop strategy for the department.
In more than a decade at the Wall Street Journal, Malas served as an international correspondent, a West Coast economics reporter and an editor on the health and science team. Based in the Middle East, Malas reported on the financial crisis in the Gulf states before moving on to cover the Arab Spring, the rise and fall of Islamic State and the refugee crisis. In Syria, Malas’ reporting pieced together a pattern of chemical attacks by the Assad regime to show how global indifference helped fuel government aggression against opposition. She was among the first reporters to reach Raqqa as Islamic State advanced, and covered the takeover of Mosul on the ground.