Judith Miller: Biden's actions on Syria, Saudi Arabia, signal a new day in the Middle East in 2 major ways

Biden took two important actions last week on Saudi Arabia and Syria that highlight not only his goals for the region but also his red lines.

The four-page, highly redacted report whose key conclusions were leaked two years ago asserts that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation that led to Khashoggi’s murder. This was the first official U.S. statement blaming Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler for Khashoggi’s brutal killing. On Thursday night in Syria, airstrikes that Biden ordered struck a group of buildings and members of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militia on the Syrian side of a border with Iraq, killing at least one of the group’s fighters and according to news outlets in the region, as many as 17. The U.S. strike was in response to Iranian-backed militia rocket attacks on the Erbil airport in northern Iraq on February 15 in which a Filipino U.S. contractor was killed and six others were wounded.