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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Travis Timmerman, a U.S. citizen found wandering barefoot in Damascus after being freed from a Syrian prison following the fall of the Assad regime, was handed over to U.S. forces in Syria on Friday. -
Israel bombed parts of central Beirut in what it says is a campaign to destroy the militant group Hezbollah. In return, Hezbollah retaliated with a missile attack on Tel Aviv.
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In Lebanon, a senior Hezbollah official has been killed in an Israeli airstrike. The official was head of the militant group's media operations.
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Amid Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, an animal group in Beirut rescued a baby lion cub and sent it to safety.
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We look at the efforts to broker a ceasefire between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel. Fighting has escalated between the two, pushing the conflict deeper into Lebanon.
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Israel has recently attacked locations far from the fighting, killing in total almost 200 displaced Lebanese people. NPR went to the site of one of those attacks.
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The group Animals Lebanon says it rescued Sara the lion cub from abuse by a Lebanese social media influencer, kept it safe in Beirut and sent it to a wildlife sanctuary in South Africa. -
As Israel intensified attacks in the Lebanese city of Baalbek, residents fled to an ancient Roman temple, hoping the site’s UNESCO status might save them. -
As the expanding Mideast war nears a one-year milestone, Israel launched targeted strikes in Lebanon overnight, where the conflict pushed further north. -
Iran launched long-range missiles against Israel, just hours after Israeli forces launched a ground offensive into southern Lebanon against Iran's main proxy, Hezbollah. The dramatic escalation is raising fears of an all-out war in the Middle East. We hear from two NPR correspondents in the region. For more coverage of all sides of this conflict, go to npr.org/mideastupdates
