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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Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian beat hard-liner Saeed Jalili in the runoff election to replace the late president who was killed in a helicopter crash in May. -
Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian received the most votes in Iran's snap presidential elections. But it wasn't enough to avoid a runoff with the second-place contender — a hard-line conservative. -
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Iranian news has not reported any such strike and concluded the sounds reported were the interception of one or more drones. Israel's military has not responded to NPR's requests for comment. -
Iran blames Israel for a strike on its Syria consulate, and has vowed to retaliate. Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution transformed previously cordial relations between Iran and Israel to fierce hostility. -
Nine mine workers were trapped underground after a landslide at a gold mine in Turkey's eastern Anatolia region. -
This week Turkey marked one year since the earthquake that killed more than 53,000 people in the country and left over 3 million homeless. Critics say the government hasn't met its promise to rebuild. -
Two explosions in southeastern Iran have killed more than 100 people and wounded over 200, according to Iran's state media, which said Iranian officials called the blasts a "terrorist attack." -
Health officials say the hospitals are out of electricity. The U.N. and World Health Organization pleaded for "decisive international action" to preserve what's left of the health care system in Gaza. -
The death toll is rising. At least 1,400 Israelis and more than 4,000 Palestinians in Gaza are dead as the war continues into a second week.
