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Dexter Filkins

Politics World

The Accidental Revolutionary Leading Belarus’s Uprising

How Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya came to challenge her country’s dictatorship.

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Dec 2021 Permalink

World

The Enemy Is Here

On the twilight of the Iranian Revolution.

Dexter Filkins New Yorker May 2020 30min Permalink

World

The Shadow Commander

Iranian operative Qassem Suleimani has been reshaping the Middle East. Now he’s directing Bashar al-Assad’s war in Syria.

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Qassem Suleimani was assassinated by a U.S. airstrike earlier this week.

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Sep 2013 40min Permalink

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Blood and Soil in India

On Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist movement.

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Dec 2019 40min Permalink

Politics World

A Saudi Prince’s Quest to Remake the Middle East

In his work with the White House, is Mohammed bin Salman driving out extremism, or merely seizing power for himself?

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Mar 2018 45min Permalink

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Rex Tillerson at the Breaking Point

How long will the Secretary of State have his job?

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Oct 2017 45min Permalink

Best Article World

A Bigger Problem Than ISIS?

The Mosul Dam is failing. A breach would cause a masssive wave that could kill as many as a million and a half people.

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Dec 2016 25min Permalink

Politics World

The Deep State

On Erdogan’s struggle for power.

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Mar 2012 40min Permalink

Crime World

Death of a Prosecutor

Alberto Nisman accused Iran and Argentina of colluding to bury a terrorist attack. Did it get him killed?

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Jul 2015 40min Permalink

World

The Fight of Their Lives

ISIS vs. the Kurds.

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Sep 2014 40min Permalink

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What We Left Behind

On the future of Iraq.

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Apr 2014 45min Permalink

Politics World

The Deep State

A profile of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, prime minister of Turkey.

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Mar 2012 40min Permalink

Politics World

The Thin Red Line

Inside the White House debate over Syria.

Dexter Filkins New Yorker May 2013 35min Permalink

Atonement

In 2003, a platoon of American soldiers opened fire on a family in a Baghdad intersection. A decade later, one of the shooters tracks down the survivors.

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Oct 2012 35min Permalink

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The Journalist and the Spies

The death of the journalist who exposed dark secrets about Islamic extremism in Pakistan’s military.

Dexter Filkins New Yorker Sep 2011 35min Permalink

My Long War

A mission in Baghdad to let a photojournalist get a shot of an insurgent corpse ends up getting a Marine killed.

Dexter Filkins New York Times Magazine Aug 2008 25min Permalink