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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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's military aggression in Syria to create what he calls a safe zone along the border has sparked international concern. But at home, the criticism is more muted.
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President Trump is removing sanctions on Turkey after it agreed to a permanent cease-fire in northern Syria, ending Turkey's military offensive that began when the U.S. pulled troops from the area.
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The cease-fire between Turkey and Syrian Kurds appears to be holding, despite a looming deadline. Turkey's president said the process will not end before all of the Kurds have withdrawn as agreed.
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The U.S. is preparing to evacuate its anti-ISIS forces from northeast Syria as a Turkish offensive into the region has endangered U.S. troops. Kurds say Syrian troops will fill the void.
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Turks and Syrians living along the common border between their countries are caught by the sudden explosion of violence following Turkey's incursion. Overnight, life became more dangerous.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced on Twitter that Turkey has launched its operation to take over a stretch Kurdish-controlled territory in Syria.
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Turkey plans to invade Syria as the White House says it will remove U.S. troops from the immediate area. The withdrawal will likely put Kurdish forces that helped the U.S. defeat ISIS in danger.
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Oil prices jumped following drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities. Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility, but the U.S. says Iran played a key role.
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Turkey's hosting of millions of Syrian refugees has generated a backlash, and the government says too many are living in Istanbul. Some have been ordered to leave within two weeks.
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Iran says it seized an Iraqi oil tanker and its crew in the Persian Gulf, for allegedly smuggling fuel. It's the third such incident in two weeks, and comes amid rising U.S.-Iranian tensions.
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Iranian state media say Iran's naval forces have seized a foreign tanker in the Persian Gulf.
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A special meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna this week let the U.S. and Iran spell out their starkly different views, and came amid continuing tensions.
