When Chinese research submarines this summer traveled thousands of feet beneath the #Arctic ice, it sent a chilling message to the US and its allies. If #Russia's dominance in the high north wasn't enough, #China is becoming more aggressive as well. Our story: www.wsj.com/world/china-...

Drones, robots, sophisticated surveillance and navigation tech. All of it is now a tenet of modern warfare. But in the Arctic, where the risk of the next global conflict is growing, most hi tech equipment doesn’t work. My story: www.wsj.com/world/where-...

“I will keep killing to keep Bashar Assad in power... I will kill half the country if I have to.” My colleagues @jmalsin.bsky.social and Summer Said on the notorious architect of the Assad regimes campaign to kill and collectively punish the Syrian people www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Our exclusive: María Corina Machado traveled by boat yesterday to the island nation of Curacao. She is now on her way to Oslo where her daughter has just received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf www.wsj.com/world/americ...

“All these folks that fought our wars should have been granted veteran status. We gotta make sure they get the same benefits as our veterans” Advocates say the US should allow in more, not fewer, Afghans, and provide mental health counseling. My story: www.wsj.com/politics/nat... #afghanistan

@suneengel.bsky.social also wrote about a terrifying story (that lives rent free in my head) about this recently --

Such an important story by my colleague Nicholas Bariyo. Locals accuse Chinese officials of deception, while Zambian President Hichilema is accused of kowtowing to Sino Metals while negotiating relief from a $6 billion debt to China. www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

British Airways pulls sponsorship of Louis Theroux podcast bc of interview with Bob Vylan. Louis is a journalist and documentarian. Every media outlet on the planet tried to get an intv with Bob Vylan. Makes you wonder if the ppl at BA even know Louis' work www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

UK media is thriving on Substack. Received two absolute bangers of stories in my inbox this morning, from @londoncentric.media and @vittles.bsky.social. I will keenly defend (some) legacy media outlets, but I also love the niche deep dives that smaller, independent outlets are able to do.

European countries are scrambling to bolster their defenses before the next wave of Russian drones: Stockpiling shotguns, installing radars and teaching civilians how to knock out out drones. Our story: www.wsj.com/world/europe... #denmark #nato #poland #ukraine

I spent 3 weeks on a cargo ship in the Arctic, from Canada to Greenland. Our only company was blizzards, killer whales, thick fog and icebergs. Here is my story about how the West is lagging seriously behind Russia in the Arctic, and why it's so difficult to catch up www.wsj.com/world/inside...

If President Trump was angry with Venezuela before.... #nobelpeaceprize #nobel

📷 Les photos de notre @julietterobert.bsky.social dans ce reportage de @suneengel.bsky.social pour le @wsj.com, sur les militaires de l'OTAN qui s'entraînent à combattre dans l'Arctique suédois par temps chaud. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

More drones over Denmark, over multiple airports, including a military airbase home to most of the country's F16 and F35 fighters jets. Govt says it doesn't have the tools to protect against drones and that it needs help, including from Ukraine www.wsj.com/world/europe... #russia

Danish police say a "capable operator" sent drones over Copenhagen airport last night, but can't at this stage confirm allegations by Zelensky that it was Russia www.wsj.com/world/europe... #ukraine #nato

Uproar in Denmark over allegations that Trump associates are traveling to Greenland to sow divisions between the island and Copenhagen, and to recruit Greenlandic separatists. White House official tells us: "We think the Danes need to calm down.” My story: www.wsj.com/world/suspec...

Good to see more reporting on nitazenes in UK media, and to see London clubs being proactive (stocking naloxone in medical rooms and telling clubbers about contaminated drugs.) In addition, I'll add that nitazene test kits are available to purchase online www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/op...

221 people have been arrested since the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group in the UK a month ago, according to Counter Terrorism Policing. 10 people have been charged.

MY LATEST: Fentanyl fueled the worst drug crisis the West has seen. Now, an even more dangerous drug is wreaking havoc faster than authorities can keep up. The looming danger is an emerging wave of highly potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Read the full story: www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Absolutely extraordinary reporting from @jmalsin.bsky.social who got rare testimonies from men who survived years in Syria's notorious Saydnaya prison, and in the process uncovered a mass killing of hundreds of prisoners in 2023 that we didn't know about. Must read: www.wsj.com/world/middle...

I spoke to @npr.org's All Things Considered about my recent exclusive interview with Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi: www.npr.org/2025/07/04/n...

In an exclusive interview, Iran’s Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi tells me that Israel’s war dealt a blow to Iran’s struggle for democracy (which Israel claims to support). The war weakened civil society and will lead the Iranian state to crack down on any dissent www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Calls for Iranians to rise up misunderstand Iran. Revolutions orchestrated by foreigners are tarnished with dishonor and treachery, especially Iran— for historical reasons. Insightful essay by Christopher de Bellaigue, one of the great foreign writers on Iran www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Israel’s conflict with Iran is costing the country hundreds of millions of dollars a day. Interceptors for Iranian missiles are particularly expensive. The high price tag will weigh on Israel to wrap up the conflict quickly. My colleague Anat Peled reports: www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The intelligence apparatus that has kept Khamenei in power for 4 decades is crumbling around him. He will spend the autumn of his life fighting to salvage the Islamic Republic. "The ship that he stewarded has run aground,” @osto.bsky.social told me My story: www.wsj.com/world/middle... #iran

Iran has ordered thousands of tons of ballistic-missile ingredients from China, as it seeks to rebuild its military prowess amid nuclear talks with the U.S., and after its missile program suffered a setback in Israeli attacks last year www.wsj.com/world/iran-o...

Europol has launched a new task force to combat the recruitment of minors for terrorism and organized crime. ICYMI, here's my story from last month about the growing threat to Europe from teenage terrorists, Islamists and well as right-wingers www.wsj.com/world/europe...

The five Iranian men who were arrested across the U.K. over the weekend are suspected of plotting an attack on the Israeli Embassy in London - the latest in a long-established pattern of Iranian agents targeting Israeli diplomats abroad. Story by Max Colchester and me www.wsj.com/world/middle...

To those surprised that one ally would spy on another, remember that under Obama, the Danish intelligence service helped the NSA spy on Angela Merkel and other European politicians www.wsj.com/world/greenl...

Gotta hand it to him, it's pretty bold: 20 yo Dutch man was caught trying to smuggle 50kg of ecstasy into Ibiza. His two suitcases were filled to the brim with 163,000 pills, covered only by the zip-up partition. nltimes.nl/2025/05/05/m...

In Europe, most young terrorist suspect are radical Islamists. In the U.S., the problem is mostly with right-wing extremists. One expert told me that, similar to how ISIS' caliphate was a main exporter of jihadism, the U.S. has become a main exporters of far-right ideology

Terrorists in Europe are becoming younger and harder to find. My story about how the process of radicalization - of religious as well as right wing extremists - has sped up, and mostly happens at home, online. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

In Sweden, criminal gangs are using the country's free-choice system to plant students in specific schools to avoid rival gangs and tighten their grip on certain districts, according to report by SVT www.svtplay.se/video/eb3YwJ...

“The Nordic countries have a unified security policy for the first time since the Kalmar Union in the 1400s,” @jensstoltenberg told me. My story about how the Nordics have pooled their resources to confront Russia, leading the way for European defense www.wsj.com/world/europe...

It is unclear what Trump wants with Greenland. A 1951 treaty with Denmark already allows him to beef up US military presence if he wants to. US companies can mine Greenland's minerals but investors won't pay for it. Greenland's worry is that Trump wants territory, just for the sake of it

It was spun as a feel-good trip to "celebrate Greenlandic culture", but in Greenland, it was met with fury. In Denmark, the PM dialled up her usually diplomatic rhetoric and is now in a full-on spat with the Trump administration. Our story: www.wsj.com/world/greenl...

The US delegation to Greenland will no longer attend a dogsled race and "celebrate Greenlandic culture", but only visit American soldiers on the Pituffik base (far away from potentially angry Greenlandic civilians). Clear retreat after Greenlandic and Danish pushback

I'm so buzzed that my book "Twenty Years" has won an OPC (@opcofamerica.bsky.social) award. The judges call it "extremely well-written" and a "deeply reported and even-handed account of the Afghanistan War’s impact on ordinary Afghans... rather than on diplomats, generals and politicians"

Amid the destruction of Syria’s war, one place prospered. Here’s my story from Idlib about how a former forgotten backwater under Islamist rebel rule became a buzzing commercial hub: www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Wow, I'm very humbled by this long review of TWENTY YEARS in The New York Review of Books It calls my book "devastating" and an example of immersive journalism "viewed by many journalists as the pinnacle of the craft, one that elevates mere reportage to literature" www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Denmark will raise its defense spending to an unprecedented level, hoping to inspire the rest of Europe to do the same. “Buy, buy, buy. There is only one thing that counts, and that is speed,” Danish PM Mette Frederiksen said. Our story: www.wsj.com/articles/den...

This is huge. The man known as Caesar, who exposed the Assad regime's brutal torture and killings by leaking thousands of photos from Syria's underground prisons, has revealed himself. World, meet Farid al-Madhan.

Greetings from Greenland. Story incoming 🚁

Syria’s new rulers, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, need all the help they can get governing the country. In Aleppo, I found Syrians overwhelmingly (if cautiously) supportive of the former Al-Qaeda affiliate. For now, most Syrians are united in building a new country. My story: www.wsj.com/world/middle...

My story on Salwan Momika, the Iraqi refugee whose Quran burnings thrust Sweden into a geopolitical storm at the worst possible time, and who was killed late last night during a livestream on TikTok www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson has said the killing might be linked to a foreign power. Sweden has in recent years seen a dramatic rise in organized crime, which foreign actors (such as Iran) have used to recruit hitmen to attack their enemies.

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi refugee in Sweden whose Quran burnings sparked violent international protests, has been shot dead in Sweden. The Quran burnings by Momika and others also added to tensions that prompted Turkey to delay Sweden's NATO membership #salwanmomika

As expected, the International Criminal Court's prosecutor has requested the arrest of Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, as well as chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for their persecution of women and girls in Afghanistan www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Spent part of the holidays reading @suneengel.bsky.social’s powerful book on Afghanistan. One of the heaviest lines comes from an Afghan interpreter left behind after the US withdrawal. “I love the Americans. I always thought they were my friends. I am sure one day they will help me.”

Iran detained Italian journalist Cecilia Sala more than a week ago. We don’t know the charges or what Tehran wants in exchange for her release, but Italy recently arrested an Iranian, Mohammed Abedini on behalf of the U.S. for supplying navigation systems for drones and missiles used by IRGC