Joby Warrick
National Security Reporter at The Washington Post
National Security reporter for @washingtonpost. Author of RED LINE (Feb. 2021); BLACK FLAGS: THE RISE OF ISIS; and THE TRIPLE AGENT.
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Jan 2, 2025 |
washingtonpost.com | Souad Mekhennet |Joby Warrick
By the time he came up with the idea of bombing a Taylor Swift concert, Beran Aliji's young life had completely broken down. In July, amid a self-described mental crisis, the 19-year-old Austrian abruptly quit his job as a factory apprentice and isolated himself in his apartment, obsessing, as he later told police, about his own death.
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Dec 12, 2024 |
washingtonpost.com | Joby Warrick
In 53 years of Assad family rule, Syria's government made chemical weapons by the ton, from giant vats of World War I-era mustard gas to nerve agents so deadly thatjust a few drops could kill. But by far the most worrisome Syrian weapons of mass destructionare the ones that simply disappeared. The list of the missing is long. As tabulated by international weapons inspectors, more than 360 tons of mustard gas that Syria admitted making has never been fully accounted for.
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Dec 7, 2024 |
rsn.org | Joby Warrick |Ellen Nakashima
Western governments long worried about a “catastrophic success” in Syria if Islamist fighters gained control. But experts say the rebels have changed. When a patchwork of rebel armies threatened Syria’s capital a decade ago, governments from Washington to the Middle East were forced to confront a jarring possibility: A collapse of Syria’s brutal autocracy might lead to the rise of something even worse.
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Dec 7, 2024 |
msn.com | Joby Warrick |Ellen Nakashima
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Dec 7, 2024 |
washingtonpost.com | Joby Warrick |Ellen Nakashima
When a patchwork of rebel armies threatened Syria's capital a decade ago, governments from Washington to the Middle East were forced to confront a jarring possibility: A collapse of Syria's brutal autocracy might lead to the rise of something even worse. At the time, the United States and its allies were pouring billions of dollars into arming pro-democracy rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.
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One would-be terrorist dreamed of bombing a Taylor Swift concert. Another concocted a plan to unleash mayhem in New Orleans. A common thread: ISIS provided inspiration and a “cause." How radicalization works in the social-media age, with @smekhennet https://t.co/7zGXFiMCcY
RT @smekhennet: Inspired by ISIS: From a Taylor Swift plot in Vienna to carnage in New Orleans. Latest with the amazing @JobyWarrick htt…
