Fahnbulleh joined Sky News in November 2010 as a reporter. He has worked extensively with the British Army and during the summer of 2010 was embedded with the First Battalion, the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment during a six-month tour of Afghanistan. In November of the same year, he was one of the first reporters to cover the student protests in London, and in 2011 reported live on the August riots from both Manchester and Liverpool. In the same year, he became a freelance presenter for Sky World News between 0:00 and 6:00.