Ellen Knickmeyer

Ellen Knickmeyer is a former Washington Post bureau chief in Baghdad and Cairo. Before coming to the Post, she was the West Africa bureau chief for The Associated Press. This year, she graduated from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

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Yemen’s Dangerous Hunger Crisis

Citizens of the embattled nation are struggling to find food and water to survive. By Ellen Knickmeyer.

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Afghanistan: The End Is Near

The president knows that, sooner or later, we'll have to leave. Former Washington Post reporter Ellen Knickmeyer on his drawdown speech.

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Angry Iranian and Arab Leaders React to Wikileaks Revelations

Nowhere were the Wikileaks documents read with keener interest than in the Middle East— with Iranian and Arab leaders either irate or embarrassed.

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Yemen Defends Itself

Battling charges that the country is doing nothing to apprehend major terrorists, a top Yemeni official talks back.

Ellen Knickmeyer

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WikiLeaks Exposes Rumsfeld's Lies

Recent revelations by WikiLeaks show how top American leaders lied, knowingly, to the American public, to American troops, and to the world. Ellen Knickmeyer on the carnage she saw as Baghdad bureau chief.

Ellen Knickmeyer

Ellen Knickmeyer

Yemen’s Dangerous Hunger Crisis

Afghanistan: The End Is Near

Angry Iranian and Arab Leaders React to Wikileaks Revelations

Yemen Defends Itself

WikiLeaks Exposes Rumsfeld's Lies

The Next 9/11

The Endgame in Iraq

We're Training the Next Bin Laden

Gen. McChrystal: Future Bookstore Owner?

Petraeus, a Master of Spin