About Arwa Damon

Arwa Damon is a senior international correspondent based in CNN’s Istanbul bureau. As one of the network’s Middle East specialists, Damon frequently reports from conflict zones across the Middle East and North Africa region, often focusing her work on humanitarian stories.

Damon’s coverage has latterly focused on the fierce fighting in Iraq between militant Islamist group ISIS and the Iraqi national army and associated paramilitary groups. Her reporting has proven essential, guiding viewers through the complexities of the bloody and ongoing conflict. In 2018 she won a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for her reporting on the fall of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and three Emmys for her coverage in Iraq and Syria including Outstanding News Special for Return to Mosul.

Damon has also focused on environmental issues all over the world including the Antarctic, where in 2018 she spent a month on a Greenpeace expedition for a special report on climate change in the Antarctic region, Expedition Antarctic, and the forests of central Indonesia, where she investigated issues like deforestation and the threats of extinction that man species face in a special documentary, Sumatra: Paradise Lost