Joby Warrick (born August 4, 1960) is an American journalist who has worked forThe Washington Post since 1996, mostly writing about the Middle East, diplomacy, and national security. He has also written about theintelligence community, the proliferation ofweapons of mass destruction and the environment, and has also served as a member of thePost's investigation branch. His work has been recognized with twoPulitzer Prizes.

Warrick was given the 2003 Bob Consadine Award for best interpretation of international affairs in a newspaper by theOverseas Press Club of America, for his articles about proliferation threats.^[1] In September 2002, Warrick was one of the first journalists to publish reports casting doubt on the Bush administration's claims that aluminum tubes discovered in Iraq were appropriate for use in uranium centrifuges.^[2]

Prior to his work atThe Washington Post, Warrick reported forThe News & Observer ofRaleigh, North Carolina. The newspaper received the1996Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of articles by Warrick, Melanie Sill and Pat Stith "on the environmental and health risks of waste disposal systems used in North Carolina's growing hog industry".^[3][4] The North Carolina native was previously an Eastern Europe correspondent for UPI and also worked forThe Philadelphia Inquirer and theDelaware County Daily Times.

Warrick is the author ofThe Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA, a narrative culminating in the December 30, 2009,Camp Chapman attack in Afghanistan, which resulted in the murder of seven CIA employees by a suicide bomber.^[5][6][7] Warrick creditsBob Woodward for helping him structure the book's manuscript.^[8]

Warrick was awarded the2016Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his bookBlack Flags: The Rise of ISIS which recounts the characters and events behind the emergence of the Islamic State.^[9]

His third book,Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World is a narrative account ofSyria's chemical-weapons crisis and the effort to remove the country's chemical weapons arsenal in the middle of acivil war.

An alumnus ofTemple University, Warrick lives in Washington, D.C., and has two children with his wife Maryanne Jordan Warrick.

• The Triple Agent. Doubleday. 2011.ISBN 978-0-385-53418-5.
• Black Flags: the Rise of ISIS. Doubleday. 2015.ISBN 978-0-385-53821-3.
• Red Line: The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World. Doubleday. 2021.ISBN 978-0385544467.

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