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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Syrian rebels have overturned one of the oldest dictatorships in the world. It has been a long struggle, including more than a decade of civil war. But it all began in 2011, during the Arab Spring.
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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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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. -
Israel says it is using air force and artillery to support “limited” and “localized” ground raids. The offensive follows a wave of deadly explosions and two weeks of Israeli airstrikes.
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The Middle East changed over the weekend. Israel killed the leader of the militant group Hezbollah in Beirut in a wave of continuing airstrikes that began a week ago.
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Some of Israel's fiercest airstrikes in Lebanon have been in the East Bekaa valley, where Israel says the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah is hiding rockets and missiles in people’s homes.
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With Israel and Hezbollah locked in the fiercest fighting in decades, many Lebanese have taken refuge in schools, hotels and other shelters. -
The trade of cross-border missiles came after the deadliest day of conflict in Lebanon since 2006. Lebanon’s health ministry said on Tuesday that 558 people have been killed.
