Kareem Fahim

Istanbul

Istanbul bureau chief covering the Middle East

Education: Occidental College, bachelor's degree in Diplomacy and World Affairs; Columbia University, SIPA, master's degree in International Affairs

Kareem Fahim has served as the Istanbul bureau chief and a Middle East correspondent for The Washington Post since September 2016. Previously, he worked for 11 years as a staff reporter for the New York Times, with assignments on the metro desk and as a Cairo-based foreign correspondent reporting on the Arab uprisings and their aftermath. Fahim attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, and Columbia University's graduate School of International and Public Affairs. He grew up in Palo Alto, Calif., and in Kuwait.
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Israeli forces leave trail of destruction in Jenin after days-long raid

Israel said it killed 14 militants during the operation, which was one of its longest in the occupied territory in years.

September 6, 2024
The Israeli military withdrew from Jenin early Friday.

U.S. woman fatally shot at West Bank protest; witnesses say IDF shot her

The Israel Defense Forces said it was “looking into reports that a foreign national was killed as a result of shots fired in the area.”

September 6, 2024

Lebanon detains former central bank governor accused of financial crimes

Riad Salameh, who was once credited with reviving Lebanon’s post-civil-war economy, has since been blamed for the stunning collapse of its banking sector.

September 3, 2024
FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh speaks during a news conference at Central Bank in Beirut, Lebanon, November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir//File Photo

Mass polio vaccinations in Gaza amid limited pause in fighting, U.N. says

Israel permitted a “humanitarian corridor” for mass polio vaccinations in designated areas of Gaza, after the disease was detected there for the first time in 25 years.

September 1, 2024

Israeli strikes in Gaza and Lebanon kill at least 25, officials say

Saturday’s bloodshed came after the United States and its allies expressed optimism over cease-fire negotiations to end the war in Gaza.

August 17, 2024
Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in the rubble of a destroyed building Saturday after an overnight Israeli airstrike on Zuweida in the central Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah is undeterred as Lebanon braces for war with Israel

The militant group has been buoyed by its status as Lebanon’s unrivaled military force, its vast arsenal of weapons and its tens of thousands of men under arms.

August 11, 2024
The site of a June 6 airstrike by Israeli forces that hit Lebanon’s Wadi Jilo. The attack leveled one building, damaged another and caused a third to catch fire. Twenty people were injured in the strike.

Lebanon mourns victims of Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah commander

Hezbollah confirmed the death of one of its senior commanders, Fuad Shukr, in an Israeli airstrike, an attack that killed five other people, including children.

July 31, 2024

Israel says it killed Hezbollah commander in Beirut suburb

The military said it killed Fuad Shukr, whom it called a “senior military commander,” in retaliation for a deadly rocket strike in the Golan Heights.

July 31, 2024

Israel strikes deep in Lebanon after rocket attack, stoking fear of wider war

Israel had promised revenge for a rocket strike from Lebanon that killed 12 in the Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams. Hezbollah denied responsibility.

July 28, 2024
Thousands of people from the Druze community attend the funeral of 10 people killed in a rocket attack from Lebanon in Majdal Shams, Golan Heights, on Sunday.

Attacks in Gaza and Golan Heights kill more than 40, many of them children

An Israeli strike in Gaza killed at least 30 people. In the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a rocket attack the military blamed on Hezbollah left 11 people dead.

July 27, 2024