Peter Kenyon
Peter Kenyon is NPR's international correspondent based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Prior to taking this assignment in 2010, Kenyon spent five years in Cairo covering Middle Eastern and North African countries from Syria to Morocco. He was part of NPR's team recognized with two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards for outstanding coverage of post-war Iraq.
In addition to regular stints in Iraq, he has followed stories to Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain, Qatar, Algeria, Morocco and other countries in the region.
Arriving at NPR in 1995, Kenyon spent six years in Washington, D.C., working in a variety of positions including as a correspondent covering the US Senate during President Bill Clinton's second term and the beginning of the President George W. Bush's administration.
Kenyon came to NPR from the Alaska Public Radio Network. He began his public radio career in the small fishing community of Petersburg, where he met his wife Nevette, a commercial fisherwoman.
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In Israel, families of some of the more than 200 hostages taken by Hamas during its deadly Oct. 7 attack concluded a march across the country from Tel Aviv to the prime minister's office in Jerusalem.
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The Israeli military said its troops went into the main hospital complex in Gaza City overnight — where conditions for patients and medical staff have been growing increasingly desperate.
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Health officials say the hospitals are out of electricity. The U.N. and World Health Organization pleaded for "decisive international action" to preserve what's left of the health care system in Gaza. -
Still reeling from the shock of the Oct. 7 attacks by the militant group Hamas, ordinary Israelis are looking for ways to help the war effort.
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Families of those whose loved ones have been taken hostage by the militant group Hamas watch and wait in fear as prospects for an Israeli ground invasion into Gaza grow.
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The death toll is rising. At least 1,400 Israelis and more than 4,000 Palestinians in Gaza are dead as the war continues into a second week. -
Israel's military said that it would continue to allow Gazans to evacuate south as hundreds of thousands had already moved. Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed more than 2,600 Palestinians. -
Israel's military said it is still fighting Hamas militants in southern Israel after they broke through the Gaza border to launch an unprecedented wave of attacks. Israel responded with air strikes. -
The White House says at least 11 American citizens have been killed in the fighting between Hamas and Israel. -
Protests continue in the Armenian capital Yerevan after the collapse of the breakaway government of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.
