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
Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.
Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.
In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed.
Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.
Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.
Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.
When students and liberals initially occupied Tahrir Square, it looked like it might be a passing thing.
Some Iraqi troops aren't willing to fight for their government. But many Shiites appear willing to fight for their religious leaders.
Many governments are quick to condemn Assad, but a dwindling number of them would celebrate a rebel victory in Damascus.
The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone.
When you look at Syria, and you look at all the militant groups on the ground, there are many groups in Syria that could pose a threat to the United States, not just Khorasan.
What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.
There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected.
We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.