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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Iraq's president has asked the prime minister to resign and called for new elections, two key demands of protesters there.
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Protesters across Iraq came out into the streets on Friday angry at low employment and poor government services in the country.
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Kurdish-Syrian fighters say they have withdrawn from a key border city as part of a U.S. brokered deal with Turkish forces. But both Turkey and the Kurds accuse the other of breaking the ceasefire.
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Turkey insists the cease-fire is holding in northeastern Syria after brokering a deal with U.S. involvement. But shelling could still be heard at the border hours after the deal was announced.
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As a military offensive by Turkey into Syria continues, aid agencies are increasingly concerned. Tens of thousands of civilians in the region have been displaced by the violence.
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Five years ago then-President Barack Obama announced air strikes in Iraq to protect U.S. interests and the Yazidi minority. It was a key moment in the fight against ISIS but the Yazidis still suffer.
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Iraqis are jubilant over the designation of the ancient city of Babylon as a world heritage site. Damage from railways, poor restorations and U.S. troops are now considered part of the local history.
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The strike hit a detention center in the Libyan capital Tripoli, killing more than 40 people. The U.N.-backed government in Libya blames a militia leader who is fighting for control of Tripoli.
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As tensions rise between Iran and the United States, members of the international community, including Iraq, Israel and Germany, are reacting to the situation.
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Watfa and Jeelan are finally free of the ISIS woman who kept them captive for the past five years. But she's the only "family" they can remember and they want to go back to her.