Richard Engel

NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent

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Richard Engel Biography

Richard Engel is an American journalist and author who is the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008 after serving as the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut bureau chief. Before joining NBC in May 2003, Engel reported on the start of the 2003 war in Iraq for ABC News as a freelance journalist in Baghdad.

Engel is known for having covered the Iraq War, the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War. He speaks and reads Arabic fluently and is fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel received the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary".

Engel wrote A Fist in the Hornet's Nest, published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq War from Baghdad. His most recent book, And Then All Hell Broke Loose, published in 2016, is about his two-decade career in the Middle East as a freelance reporter.

Engel is the host of the MSNBC special series "On Assignment with Richard Engel," which won a 2019 Peabody Award. Engel's latest documentary, "Ukraine: Freedom or Death" aired on April 22, 2022 and covered the first two months of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/07/2024.

Richard Engel Videos

  • Richard Engel: On Taliban Overtaking Kabul | MSNBC
    The collapse of Afghanistan’s government happened very quickly from an outside point of view, but for those like NBC’s Richard Engel who has been...
  • Bike-Riding Through Bagram: Richard Engel | NBC News
    The United States spent more than $80 billion to train and equip Afghan security forces, Richard Engel reports.
  • Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif On US Relationship

Richard Engel Books

  • And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
    And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
  • War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq
    War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq

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