Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Molly Hennessy-Fiske is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, where she has spent a decade covering foreign, national, metro and business news, including reporting rotations in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon. She won an Overseas Press Club award in 2015, a Dart award from Columbia University in 2014, was a finalist for the Livingston Awards and Casey Medal and won state awards for her work in California, Florida, New York and North Carolina. She completed a Thomson Reuters fellowship in Lebanon in 2006 and a Pew fellowship reporting from Mexico in 2004. She has reported for newspapers in Boston, Miami, Raleigh, Schenectady, Syracuse, Washington and West Palm Beach. Hennessy-Fiske grew up in Upstate New York before attending Harvard College, graduating with a bachelor's degree in social studies in 1999. She is currently Middle East bureau chief.
Recent Articles
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Coalition investigating whether airstrike killed civilians at Syrian prison
Syrian activists say a coalition airstrike Monday on an Islamic State prison in eastern Syria killed dozens of prisoners. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based group that monitors the country’s civil war through local sources, said the dawn strike killed 42 prisoners and 15 militants...
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Will Qatar agree to Arab countries' new list of demands? Unlikely
Four Arab countries locked in a blockade of Qatar since June 5 have issued a list of 13 demands posted online by Doha-based Al Jazeera that the Persian Gulf nation is unlikely to accept: 1) Scale back diplomatic ties with Iran; close Iranian diplomatic missions in Qatar; expel members of Iran's...
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In a shake-up, Saudi king names son Mohammed bin Salman new crown prince
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Wednesday appointed his 31-year-old son, Mohammed bin Salman, as crown prince, replacing the country’s counter-terrorism czar with the young activist leader at a time when the kingdom is struggling with low oil prices, a diplomatic crisis in Qatar, war in Yemen and...
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With a blockade deadline looming, families in Qatar face a tough choice: Stay or go?
Wafa Yazeedi, a doctor and single mother who runs a hospital in this tiny Persian Gulf nation, has found herself in the middle of a sudden political crisis that has engulfed parts of the Arab world — and threatened to break up her family. A blockade of Qatar that took full effect this weekend technically...
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Russia says it might have killed Islamic State leader in airstrike
The Russian military said Friday it is investigating whether an airstrike in the Syrian desert has killed Abu Bakr Baghdadi, Islamic State’s self-described “caliph.” The death of one of the world’s most wanted jihadist leaders would be a military victory for Russia and a setback for the militants,...
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Tiny Qatar refuses to bend on foreign policy despite a blockade by other Persian Gulf nations
The Persian Gulf this month has been gripped by an unprecedented crisis involving Qatar and several other countries that could see thousands of people forced to move and start new lives. Ongoing tension in the region escalated to crisis level June 5 when a coalition of Arab states in the Gulf Cooperation...
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Thousands attend funeral for victims of Tehran terror attacks
Thousands filled the streets of the capital Friday to mourn 17 victims of two attacks this week by Islamic State militants, the first time in recent memory Sunni jihadists managed to strike the heart of the Shiite Islamic Republic. Six attackers died — including five men and a woman who blew herself...
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Police make arrests, increase patrols as death toll climbs in Tehran attack
Police increased patrols in the streets and subway stations of Tehran on Thursday, a day after a pair of Islamic State attacks on the parliament and the tomb of Iran’s revolutionary leader. Iran's Intelligence Ministry confirmed that at least five of the eight male attackers had fought for Islamic...