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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Iranian filmmakers produced a movie about Tehran's crackdown on the 2022 women's protest movement in Iran. They have fled to Turkey but still find it hard to get their message out.
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Iran, on Friday, held the first parliamentary election since 2022's nationwide protests against the government.
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Despite promises of a massive construction campaign after the earthquake in southern Turkey a year ago, many people are still living in shipping containers and tents.
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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 U.S. military struck Yemen for a second night, bombing a radar facility used by Iranian-backed Houthis. The earlier U.S.-led attack targeted nearly 30 locations in Yemen.
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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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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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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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Latest news on the Israel-Hamas war, where the humanitarian situation is growing evermore dire in Gaza and Israelis are rallying to pressure their government to help free the hostages held by Hamas.
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The Egypt Gaza border opens briefly to allow a trickle of much needed aid in, but it is a drop in the ocean for the thousands of Palestinians stuck there.