Jason Burke

{{Short description|British journalist and author}}

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| notableworks = Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror
On the Road to Kandahar

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Jason Burke (born 1970) is a British journalist and the author of several non-fiction books. {{Asof|2016}} he was a correspondent covering Africa for The Guardian, based in Johannesburg, having previously been based in New Delhi as the same paper's South Asia correspondent. In his years of journalism, Burke has addressed a wide range of topics including politics, social affairs and culture in Europe and the Middle East.{{Cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jasonburke| title = Jason Burke Profile | work = The Guardian| access-date = 28 October 2016 | location=London | date=28 October 2008}}{{Cite news|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/page/0,11916,715400,00.html |title=Worldview highlights: Jason Burke |publisher=The Observer |location=London |access-date=2010-05-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228172120/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/page/0%2C11916%2C715400%2C00.html |archive-date=28 February 2008 }} He has written extensively on Islamic extremism and, among numerous other conflicts, covered the wars of 2001 in Afghanistan and 2003 in Iraq, the latter of which he described as "entirely justifiable from a humanitarian perspective".{{Cite web |last=Burke |first=Jason |date=2009-10-27 |title=Think Again: Al Qaeda |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/27/think-again-al-qaeda-4/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210620225644/https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/27/think-again-al-qaeda-4/ |archive-date=2021-06-20 |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=Foreign Policy |language=en-US}}

In 2003, Burke wrote Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror, which was later updated and republished as Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam. Noam Chomsky described it as the "best book there is" on Al-Qaeda.{{Cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3732345.stm | work=BBC News | title=Noam Chomsky | date=20 May 2004 | access-date=2010-05-05}} He was interviewed in the 2004 BBC documentary The Power of Nightmares. In 2006, he wrote On the Road to Kandahar: Travels through Conflict in the Islamic World.