Souad Mekhennet

"WE CAN'T LET THOSE WORKING HARD TO SPREAD HATRED DIVIDE US."


 
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Souad Mekhennet

Souad Mekhennet is an award-winning author and national security correspondent for The Washington Post. She also contributes to the German television station, ZDF, and has reported on terrorism for The New York Times and other news organizations.



 
 

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Attack on German Synagogue

BERLIN — A gunman killed two people outside a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle . . . in a method that had chilling echoes of a far-right attack on two New Zealand mosques earlier this year.

Image source: Washington Post

Image source: Washington Post

Washington Post Daily Podcast

Souad Mekhennet and Greg Miller explain how ISIS-inspired killings helped radicalize Europe’s far right.

 
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image Source: Washington Post

ISIS eyes breakout opportunity as Turkish forces batter Kurds

The Islamic State is racing to capitalize on the deteriorating security situation in northern Syria, stepping up attacks on prisons as well as on the now-weakened Kurdish militia . . .


 
Post reporters Souad Mekhennet and Greg Miller convinced Islamist militant and son of al-Qaeda bombmaker Abu Khabab al-Masri, Mohammad Masri, to sit down with them in an undisclosed location for an interview.
 
 
 
 
Those who don’t know the history of others or don’t want to know, will also not understand the behavior of others nor build bridges of humanity. There are some truths in this world that have not made it into the history books.
— Souad Mekhennet