David Patrikarakos
dpatrikarakos.bsky.social
David Patrikarakos
@dpatrikarakos.bsky.social
Writer. Books: ‘War in 140 Characters' & 'Nuclear Iran.'
Foreign Correspondent, UnHerd
Special Correspondent, Daily Mail
Host. 90 Seconds to Midnight
Episode 2 of Apocalypse Now, the Daily Mail's weekly global news podcast is out. Listen to me discuss Trump, the signal debacle & a changing US with Brett Bruen and Patrick Tucker.

"The Trump administration...cares little for the lives of soldiers oversea."

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March 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My latest - from Damascus:

"The government must now add the task of uniting a country in danger of descending to civil war. Its leader al-Sharaa must act or Syria will implode, and its people will once more face a life of the most grievous violence and murder."

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March 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My dispatch from Syria's Sednaya prison. They call it Al-Maslakh Al-Basharia, the human slaughterhouse.

Estimate are that over 13,000 prisoners died due to torture there between 2011 and 2015, with another 13,000 executed over that period as well.

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February 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I was caught in the LA wildfires and had to evacuate. The city is in utter chaos.

"Running around your house with about 45 minutes to choose just exactly what to take with you is an instructive exercise in understanding what really matters in life."

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January 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Israel has long called Iran’s nuclear program an "existential threat." But do the Israelis have the capacity to take out the nuclear facilities? And would Trump give them the green light to do so? Read and find out!

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January 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In Tbilisi, I meet a protestor carrying the Syrian flag.

"Syrians fought for 12 years to get rid of a brutal dictator backed by the same enemy who seeks to subjugate us here: the regime of Vladimir Putin. This flag is a token of solidarity between us & the Syrian people."
December 15, 2024 at 11:16 AM
I took a deep dive inside Assad's prison system. Not for the faint-hearted.

"Nothing more completely embodied the barbarous sadism of Assad’s regime than his prisons.
They were both a symbol & a means of the regime’s brutality & its oppressive tactics."

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December 10, 2024 at 9:25 AM
I was fortunate enough to do what no foreign journalist has ever done: embed with ETA, the most elite Special Forces Unit of the Greek Army 🇬🇷. These are the soldiers who will help to hold the Mediterranean in case of global war.

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November 27, 2024 at 10:23 AM
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: My story of how a western intelligence agency captured & interrogated a Quds Force operative - INSIDE IRAN.

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November 26, 2024 at 5:18 PM
My latest, on Biden's decision allowing #Ukraine 🇺🇦 to use long-range missiles in Russia - & the latest on the situation from on the ground in Kursk.
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November 19, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Biden has lifted restrictions Ukraine using long-range missiles in Russia (starting with Kursk). Excellent. Earlier this year, I embedded with 🇺🇦special forces as they conducted a deep strike 100s of Kilometres into Russia & saw first hand the importance of being able to do this.
November 18, 2024 at 7:57 PM