Honors and Awards
- 1990: Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting (co-winner with David A. Vise)
- 1991: Livingston Award for International Reporting for "Crisis and Change in South Asia", The Washington Post (winner)
- 2000: Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for "Peace Without Justice: A Journey to the Wounded Heart of Africa", The Washington Post (1st Prize: International Print)
- 2000: Ed Cunningham Award for "Peace Without Justice: A Journey to the Wounded Heart of Africa", The Washington Post
- 2004: Lionel Gelber Prize for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (winner)
- 2004: Cornelius Ryan Award for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (winner)
- 2005: Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (winner)
- 2005: Arthur Ross Book Award for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (winner)
- 2008: National Book Critics Circle Award for The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (finalist)
- 2009: PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (winner)
- 2012: Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for Private Empire (winner)
- 2012: National Book Critics Circle Award for Private Empire (finalist)
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