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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Within a matter of hours, Iraq moved to expel U.S. forces; the U.S. said it would pause the fight against ISIS in Iraq; and Iran signaled it will stop abiding by limits of the 2015 nuclear deal. -
Many deportees have arrived in Iraq without money, valid IDs or knowledge of the language and country. They struggle to find work and fear going out. "Everything is shocking to me," one deportee says. -
Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor announced five people have been sentenced to death for the 2018 murder in Turkey of Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post, after a secret trial.
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NPR international correspondent Jane Arraf shares a scene that never made it into a piece but has stuck with her since she taped it: a dumballa, or bingo, hall in Mosul, Iraq.
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A rocket attack Thursday at Baghdad's airport appears to be the latest in a string of attacks over the past five weeks that U.S. officials say have escalated both in frequency and potential lethality. -
Many of those Iraqis — in the U.S. legally but not American citizens — came to the U.S. as children. Most arrived back in Iraq without the documents or skills to get by.
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Kurds in Syria have been U.S. allies but now they're making a deal with Russia. Russian flags are flying in Kurdish territory, a sign that the Kurds want a hedge in case the U.S. pulls out.
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A visit to Syria shows a detention camp where hundreds of women from Europe, Asia and a couple from North America are held. They're wives of ISIS fighters. Two orphans were just sent back to the U.S.
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NPR has gained access to an ISIS detention camp in Syria. Kurdish forces are trying to secure thousands of prisoners while dealing with threats from Turkey, Russia and the Syrian government.
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Vice President Pence visited Iraq this past weekend and skirted the country's leaders. The country's ongoing protests and security force violence leave Iraq in continued peril.
