Jared Malsin
@jmalsin
Correspondent for @WSJ based in Istanbul, formerly of New York and Cairo. Former Middle East bureau chief for @TIME. Turning and turning in the widening gyre.
Our investigation into the mass killings in the Assad regime's Saydnaya prison in Syria, which included interviews with 21 former prisoners, is out: wsj.com/world/middle-e…
Inside Syria's death factory: Assad's regime carried out industrial-scale torture and executions that killed tens of thousands over more than a decade. "The worst atrocity of the 21st century" in terms of government involvement. @jmalsin Hamza Bonduk wsj.com/world/middle-e…
Here is an early look at the front page of The Wall Street Journal on.wsj.com/44IFRox
Amazing reporting by @jmalsin, @bcsolomon on #Saydnaya, Syria's death factory. “They gathered 600 people and killed them in three days, about 200 each night." wsj.com/world/middle-e…
One of the most impt stories to come out of Syria, a must read. The Assad regime may be gone but its impact is not. An inside look at one of its most notorious prisons and our collective failure to stop the crimes that happened there. By @jmalsin and co. wsj.com/world/middle-e…
Good article by @WSJ's @jmalsin on how Iran is moving to assess damages at Fordow wsj.com/world/middle-e…
Israeli forces intercepted a sailboat carrying activists, including climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, who planned to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza in defiance of an Israeli blockade on the enclave. wsj.com/world/middle-e… via @WSJ
This will be in textbooks. Ukraine secretly delivered FPV drones and wooden mobile cabins into Russia. The drones were hidden under the roofs of the cabins, which were later mounted on trucks. At the signal, the roofs opened remotely. Dozens of drones launched directly from the…
My latest, in which a pro-Trump Republican energy executive (@jonsbass) flies to Damascus to discuss a deal to bring US oil and gas companies to Syria and a possible lifting of sanctions: wsj.com/world/middle-e…
“There is so much assistance that is desperately needed to accomplish any of these things [that the White House is demanding] and to secure the country, let alone begin any kind of development...Time is running out.” #Syria spoke to @jmalsin @WSJ wsj.com/world/middle-e…
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele plans to double the size of the maximum-security prison where his government is holding U.S. deportees // @VeraMBergen @MHackman wsj.com/world/americas… via @WSJ