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Dexter Filkins joined The New Yorker in January of 2011, and has since written about a bank heist in Afghanistan and the democratic protests in the Middle East. Before coming to The New Yorker, Filkins had been with the New York Times since 2000, reporting from Afghanistan, Pakistan, New York, and Iraq, where he was based from 2003 to 2006. He has also worked for the Miami Herald and the Los Angeles Times, where he was chief of the paper’s New Delhi bureau. In 2009, he won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of New York Times reporters in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2006-07 and a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2007-08. He has received numerous prizes, including two George Polk Awards and three Overseas Press Club Awards. His 2008 book, “The Forever War,” won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book, and was named a best book of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, and the Boston Globe.

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July 17, 2013
Blog: Comment

From Kurdistan to New York

Suleimaniya, the Kurdish city where I was staying, is a boom town; cranes and high-rises clutter the horizon; the roads, many of them smooth and new, are crammed with cars. Women walk the streets in jeans, their hair blowing free. Kurdistan, a self-governing region, has a decadelong head start on the rest of Iraq, and it has peace, too.
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June 14, 2013
Blog: News Desk

Obama Acts on Syria—Is It Too Late?

The White House confirmed that Assad had been deploying chemical weapons just as the dictator appeared to be turning back the rebels in Syria’s terrible civil war.
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May 26, 2013
Blog: News Desk

Hezbollah Widens the Syrian War

What comes next? So far, the peace in Lebanon has mostly held, in no small way because memories of the civil war there are still fresh. But as Hezbollah commits itself more deeply to the Syrian war, the more difficult it will be to contain the violence in Lebanon itself.
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May 7, 2013
Blog: News Desk

Israel’s Red Line in Syria

President Barack Obama has his red line for intervening in the Syrian civil war. And, as events over the weekend showed, Israel has its own—and it’s Hezbollah.
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May 13, 2013
A Reporter at Large

The Thin Red Line

On several occasions, President Obama has declared that if the Syrian regime used chemical weapons, or even prepared to use them, it would be crossing a “red line.’’ But the Administration has taken care not to make the line too sharp. Though Obama has said that such attacks would be a “game changer,” he has stopped short of saying that they would be cause for military force.
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March 25, 2013
Blog: News Desk

As Syria Bleeds, Lebanon Reels

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the popular awakening sweeping the Middle East had the unintended effect of undermining the one established Arab democracy? On Friday, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati resigned. His departure followed...
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March 20, 2013
Blog: Comment

The Other Iraqi Legacy

A we look back at the Iraq War and judge its outcomes, I’d say: Ask the Iraqis. My guess is that the answers would be richer and more surprising than the one-dimensional debate we are engaging in at home.
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Feb 25, 2013
A Reporter at Large

After Syria

Hezbollah, with the help of its Iranian and Syrian benefactors, has pushed and sometimes broken the limits of the Lebanese system. The question is whether Hezbollah can restrain itself if it is threatened with a diminishment of its power.
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February 7, 2013
Blog: Comment

What We Don’t Know About Drones

If there is one overriding factor in America’s secret wars—especially in its drone campaign—it’s that the U.S. is operating in an information black hole. Our ignorance is not total, but our information is nowhere near adequate. Brennan is likely to face sharp questioning in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, as well he should. You will hear a lot of claims about militants killed and civilians killed and civilians spared. Most likely, neither side will be entitled to its shrillness.
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January 25, 2013
Blog: Comment

Women with Guns

I remember the first time I saw a female combat soldier. It was in a town called Arasadithivu, on the island of Sri Lanka. I’d taken a canoe across a wide lagoon and into territory controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or L.T.T.E., a guerrilla group that was fighting the Sri Lankan government.
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