http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/iva...raph/index.html

Nice to know Ivanka's now a military advisor as well

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/iva...ouse/index.html

 

"Ivanka is by his side in Washington. She is not involved in everything. I think she comes and goes with issues she deeply cares about but when you get to a certain level of power a lot of times, and you see this in business too, a lot of times people will say yes just because you happen to be the boss...I think it gives you a sounding board who is a little bit more unconventional than the 37 people that might happen to be standing round a table at that one time who just want to appease."

 

Totally fascinating, right?

 

What we learn from Eric Trump here is that: 1) Ivanka is the person in the White House who can tell her father "no" and 2) her installation as a formal adviser -- with a West Wing office -- might well be in reaction to the family's concerns that Trump wasn't getting the right sort of advice from "37 people that might be standing around a table at that one time who just want to appease."

 

I'd rather have it be Ivanka than Steve Bannon.

US forces didn't take necessary precautions to avoid dropping bombs on Syria mosque full of worshippers, report says

(CNN)A new report suggests American forces failed to take necessary precautions to avoid dropping a pair of bombs on a Northern Syria mosque full of hundreds of worshipers.

 

Syrians said the US airstrikes hit a western Aleppo mosque on March 16, killing at least 40 worshipers and injuring dozens more. The US said the bombings targeted a meeting hall hosting al Qaeda terrorists.

 

But Human Rights Watch said an investigation found no evidence to support the US claim that members of al Qaeda or any other armed group were meeting in the mosque. Interviews with locals and documentary evidence of the building in question suggest it was a well-known mosque that hosted lectures every Thursday between sunset and evening prayers, the group said.

 

US forces didn't take necessary precautions to avoid dropping bombs on Syria mosque full of worshippers, report says

 

Could you imagine what 2013 Trump would tweet after hearing this!?!?

Charles Lister ✔ @Charles_Lister

BIG - Opposition sources: U.S. jets *did* conduct an airstrike on a pro-#Assad convoy & FSA’s Maghawir al-Thowra followed up on the ground.

11:07 AM - 18 May 2017

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41966911

 

The BBC has uncovered details of a deal that let hundreds of IS fighters - including foreign militants - and their families escape from Raqqa in Syria, under the gaze of the US and British-led coalition and Kurdish-led forces who control the city.

 

A convoy included some of IS’s most notorious members and – despite reassurances – dozens of foreign fighters. Some of those have spread out across Syria, even making it as far as Turkey