First Thoughts

Babak Dehghanpisheh

Babak Dehghanpisheh is Newsweek magazine's Baghdad Bureau Chief. He has been covering Iraq regularly for the past five years.


The faces of the dead in Syria’s unrest: Sakher Hallak went all out last year during his first trip to the Unite...
Syria’s Revolutionary App: Amid a brutal crackdown, rebels are fighting back on their iPhones. By Babak Dehghanpisheh.
A Dictator’s Lair: At the House, the Living Was Easy & More Than a Little Paranoid by
What Are Pro-Qaddafi Soldiers Doing?: by Patrick Appel Babak Dehghanpisheh fears that loyalist forces still have...
Libyan Rebels Return to Ajdabiya: Firing celebratory gunshots, rebels streamed back into Ajdabiya, a city wreste...
Babak Dehghanpisheh reports on the chaos and rage in amidst the airstrikes
Babak Dehghanpisheh looks at hysteria over sub-Saharan Africans triggered by Gaddafi's employment of mercenaries
"They Treated Us Worse Than Animals": Babak Dehghanpisheh tours a Libyan prison that has since been torched by L...
Horrific Libyan prison exposed...reports from Libya
The Coming Crackdown: by Patrick Appel Babak Dehghanpisheh and Mandi Fahmy look ahead: Will Mubarak soon be joi...
Our latest NW Int cover: Tunisia and the future of the Arab World's mafia states: with Babak Dehghanpisheh in Tunis
Could Islamists Take Over Tunisia?: Babak Dehghanpisheh, NewsweekHundreds of Tunisians pressed shoulder to shoul...
The King of Iraq stands proud as US winds down criminal war.
The King of Iraq - By Babak Dehghanpisheh: As U.S. troops leave the country, one man stands to benefit above all: ...
The size of Iran’s smuggling industry has been estimated at $12 billion a year, and the IRGC is believed to...
Are Lebanon and Israel Headed for Another War? - Newsweek (blog)
Babak Dehghanpisheh reports on why Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has spoken out against the Syrian regime.
As Mubarak goes to court, Babak Dehghanpisheh on what Egypt got right—and the lessons from Iraq.
Babak Dehghanpisheh reports on the military crackdown by Assad’s regime and the protests that followed.
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