Joby Warrick

Joby Warrick is an American journalist and author who has been a national security reporter at The Washington Post since 1996. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, earning the prize for National Reporting in 2016 for investigation of the Islamic State and for Public Service in 1996 while at the Raleigh News & Observer. His book Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (2015) traced the origins of the Islamic State from the early days of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a Jordanian prison through the group's catastrophic rise across Iraq and Syria. The book won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. It remains the definitive journalistic account of ISIS's origins and the intelligence failures that enabled its rise. Warrick also authored The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA (2011), a gripping account of the Khost bombing in Afghanistan. His reporting has taken him across the Middle East and Central Asia, making him one of America's foremost authorities on terrorism and national security.