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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A year after powerful earthquakes devastated southern Turkey, officials have raised the death toll to more than 53,000 people. Calls to hold officials accountable have so far gone unanswered.
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Iran has attacked targets in Pakistan, Iran and Syria in recent days, and its militant proxies are also active. This adds to the tension in an already volatile region.
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The attack Wednesday in southeastern Iran killed 84 people. What does the group want and why did they attack Iran?
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In Iran, a pair of explosions killed more than 100 people and wounded many more, and a senior Hamas leader has been killed in Lebanon. No one has claimed responsibility for either incident.
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At least 73 people have been killed and 170 injured in the Iranian city of Kerman in explosions near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani.
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Two explosions in southeastern Iran have killed more than 100 people and wounded over 200, according to Iran's state media, which said Iranian officials called the blasts a "terrorist attack." -
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the U.S. and Israel have been getting into more frequent conflicts with Iran-backed militias around the Middle East.
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Israeli military experts see a long, hard road ahead for Israel in the war in Gaza, both for the military and Palestinian civilians.
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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.
