Jane Arraf
Jane Arraf covers Egypt, Iraq, and other parts of the Middle East for NPR News.
Arraf joined NPR in 2016 after two decades of reporting from and about the region for CNN, NBC, the Christian Science Monitor, PBS Newshour, and Al Jazeera English. She has previously been posted to Baghdad, Amman, and Istanbul, along with Washington, DC, New York, and Montreal.
She has reported from Iraq since the 1990s. For several years, Arraf was the only Western journalist based in Baghdad. She reported on the war in Iraq in 2003 and covered live the battles for Fallujah, Najaf, Samarra, and Tel Afar. She has also covered India, Pakistan, Haiti, Bosnia, and Afghanistan and has done extensive magazine writing.
Arraf is a former Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Her awards include a Peabody for PBS NewsHour, an Overseas Press Club citation, and inclusion in a CNN Emmy.
Arraf studied journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa and began her career at Reuters.
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A U.S. drone strike in the Iraqi capital has killed at least one leader of an Iran-backed militia, Kataib Hezbollah. -
After a weekend of U.S. air strikes targeting Iranian-backed militias, Iraq buries fighters killed in the attacks, as pressure grows for U.S. withdrawal.
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Iraqi government officials condemned the retaliatory U.S. airstrikes, saying the attacks showed U.S. forces had become a threat to their host country. -
The U.S. has conducted a series of retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militants in Iraq and Syria. Our correspondent in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has the latest.
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The strikes are more extensive and deadly than those launched since last October, when the Israeli-Gaza war began and pro-Iranian groups started an uptick of attacks. -
A group called the "Islamic Resistance in Iraq" has claimed responsibility for a drone attack that killed three U.S. service members in Jordan. It creates a threat to the U.S. military in the region.
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In Beirut's Shatila refugee camp, Palestinian refugees say they support Hamas' fight for their homeland. -
The U.S. military is being drawn into dangerous flashpoints in the Middle East after Israel invaded Gaza. Iraq faces pressure to expel U.S. forces, which have been attacked by Iran-backed militias.
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Iran has launched missile strikes against what they claim were an Israeli "spy headquarters" in Iraq's Kurdistan Region - raising fears about a widening conflict in the Middle East
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In Yemen, the Houthi are responding to the U.S.-U.K. air strikes, vowing their actions will not go without "punishment or retaliation." All of this is raising fears of a wider regional war.
