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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After Iran's unprecedented but largely ineffective attack against Israel, international leaders are calling on Israel to show restraint and to be wary of it spiraling into a broader regional conflict.
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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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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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Aid groups in the Gaza Strip are warning that the enclave is near complete collapse. Gaza is under an Israeli siege that is blocking basic humanitarian needs from getting in.
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Hamas leaders have called for nearby countries to join them in a war against Israel. The response has been mixed.
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More than 100,000 ethnic Armenians have fled from Azerbaijan to Armenia. The country is struggling with the sudden loss of the self-declared autonomous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Five Americans incarcerated in Iran are on their way home as Washington and Tehran implement a prisoner exchange deal announced in August.
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The leaders of Russia and Turkey are meeting to discuss reviving the agreement that allowed Ukraine to move grain through the Black Sea — despite the Russian invasion that has endangered shipping.