[5] She later became New York Bureau Chief and Columnist[6] for a leading London-based Middle East newspaper covering the annual General Assembly meetings of the UN.

She reported on location from Baghdad and Kabul in the summer of 2003 while traveling with Rumsfeld during his first trip to Iraq after the US-led invasion and covered his visit to the Abu Ghraib prison.

[9] Fakhry joined Al Jazeera English at its launch in 2006,[10] taking on the role of Lead Female Anchor in the network's Washington DC broadcast center.

In 2017, she joined TRT World and launched a monthly global affairs program Bigger than Five.

[13] 2012: George Foster Peabody Award for Al Jazeera's coverage of the Arab Spring.