Greg Myre
Greg Myre is a national security correspondent with a focus on the intelligence community, a position that follows his many years as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts around the globe.
He was previously the international editor for NPR.org, working closely with NPR correspondents abroad and national security reporters in Washington. He remains a frequent contributor to the NPR website on global affairs. He also worked as a senior editor at Morning Edition from 2008-2011.
Before joining NPR, Myre was a foreign correspondent for 20 years with The New York Times and The Associated Press.
He was first posted to South Africa in 1987, where he witnessed Nelson Mandela's release from prison and reported on the final years of apartheid. He was assigned to Pakistan in 1993 and often traveled to war-torn Afghanistan. He was one of the first reporters to interview members of an obscure new group calling itself the Taliban.
Myre was also posted to Cyprus and worked throughout the Middle East, including extended trips to Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. He went to Moscow from 1996-1999, covering the early days of Vladimir Putin as Russia's leader.
He was based in Jerusalem from 2000-2007, reporting on the heaviest fighting ever between Israelis and the Palestinians.
In his years abroad, he traveled to more than 50 countries and reported on a dozen wars. He and his journalist wife Jennifer Griffin co-wrote a 2011 book on their time in Jerusalem, entitled, This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Myre is a scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington and has appeared as an analyst on CNN, PBS, BBC, C-SPAN, Fox, Al Jazeera and other networks. He's a graduate of Yale University, where he played football and basketball.
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Ukraine says its access to SpaceX's Starshield has been restored. It's the system the country uses for its offensive drone attacks on Russia.
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Questions continue to swirl around a U.K. military base and potential Iran-backed attacks.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met President Trump at the U.N. and proposed that Ukraine and Russia stop attacking each other's energy systems.
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Two new reports detail the damage the Iran war has caused to U.S. bases and the rising cost of the war, which has hit over $30 billion.
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The catastrophic 9/11 attacks forced the intelligence community to radically revamp its ways of doing business. Now, critics say, President Trump is dismantling much of what was built since then. -
The Army's top civilian leader has resigned. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down after 18 months on the job, the White House says. It's the latest in a series of military leadership shakeups.
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Russia had maintained an iron grip on Crimea since it seized the territory in its initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014. But Ukraine is now waging a sustained drone campaign on the peninsula.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued an urgent call for air defense missiles to defend the country against Russia. The plea followed a deadly Russian attack on Ukraine's capital.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had a "good meeting" with President Donald Trump Tuesday, as the country seeks to make more weapons in its fight against Russia.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fires the country's army chief, just days after he dismissed the defense minister. Those two key figures had been feuding with each other.
