I was horrified recently to learn that an Italian student traveling in Iraq was detained because he happened to be carrying my book Black Flags. Happily @Marco_pic99 is back home & safe. W/ help from @lanavediteseoed @bettywrong he has a new signed copy of the Italian edition!

One would-be terrorist dreamed of bombing a Taylor Swift concert. Another concocted a plan to unleash mayhem in New Orleans. The common thread: ISIS provided inspiration and a “cause” for wanton violence. Our look at how radicalization works in the social-media age, w/ @smekhennet wapo.st/3Pj9SE6

More than 360 tons of mustard gas. A swimming pool of sarin precursors lost "due to traffic accidents." The race is on to find Syria's missing chemical weapons, and @jobywarrick.bsky.social tells you everything you need to know. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Assad’s collapse has triggered a race to find missing chemical weapons, including more than 360 tons of mustard gas and five tons of missing precursors for the nerve agent sarin. Securing whatever remains is now a top priority for Syria's neighbors & other countries. @jobywarrick.bsky.social

This article follows up on, and adds more details, to the great piece by @jobywarrick.bsky.social that orignally broke the story that Russia was building a larger BSL-4 lab complex at Sergiev Posad www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Syria's brutal dictator is gone. Here's one reason why the road ahead may not be an easy one. Our take, with @nakashimae Amid Syria’s upheaval, a wariness over the rebels’ Islamist roots wapo.st/4g8VFWk

Thanks, @spytalker.bsky.social !

A simply amazing story from @jobywarrick.bsky.social of the @washingtonpost.com that grabs you with four words — "The family was mine." — and never lets you go. wapo.st/4eEBuxE

"'We’ll just soldier through this, me and you,' Stevens had said in his mild North Carolina drawl as he put an arm around Scarbrough... 'I’ll be right here.'" Lovely, sweet, sad story by @jobywarrick.bsky.social about friendship in war, and final moments revealed decades later. wapo.st/4eEBuxE

Two Marines forged a friendship on the battlefields of World War I. One died in combat. A century later, the survivor’s recorded memories bring a long-delayed closure. A personal story for me and my family, new today. www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024...