Richard Engel
Richard Engel
Richard Engelis an American journalist and author who is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth16 September 1973
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.
Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.
Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy.
The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.
The truth was, there was never a connection between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden. There were no weapons of mass destruction, either.
For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.
If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?
The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.
There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer the case in Egypt today.
The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters.
ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?
An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only 24, a little young to be a station chief, and, of course, I was never with the C.I.A.
The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.