Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Hadeel Al-Shalchi is NPR's International Correspondent based in Istanbul.
Al-Shalchi joined NPR in 2020 as an editor on Weekend Edition and was a reporter with the International Desk covering the Israel-Hamas war. She was one of the first journalists to report from Syria after the fall of the Assad regime where she produced on-the-ground coverage that combined rigorous journalism with human-centered narratives that included an exclusive. More recently, she was in Beirut covering Israel's renewed war against Hezbollah.
Before joining NPR, Al-Shalchi covered the Middle East for 12 years for The Associated Press and Reuters, living in Cairo, Beirut, and Tripoli, Libya. She traveled the region extensively during the Arab Spring, reporting on the wars in Libya and Syria. She began her career as a newsreader and reporter at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Ottawa.
An Iraqi Canadian, Al-Shalchi was born in Kuwait, raised in Abu Dhabi, and went to high school and university in Canada. She has an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Ottawa and a master's degree in digital journalism from New York University. She is fluent in three Arabic dialects and speaks conversational French. She is an avid powerlifter and working towards a certificate to become a personal trainer.
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U.S. threats erupt into attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran retaliates against U.S. targets in the United Arab Emirates and Jordan in the first exchange of fire since July 29. -
Instead of collapsing, the Iranian regime has dug in its heels and taken an even harder line. -
The Trump administration calls this an "economic D-Day" on Iran. Iran vows to respond to fresh sanctions in a "seismic manner." -
Iran holds a funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei more than four months after he was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes. -
Khamenei, who ruled Iran for more than three decades, was killed in an airstrike on Feb. 28 at the start of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. -
Trumps says Israel and Hezbollah will stop fighting after Iran stops talks with U.S. over Israeli operations in southern Lebanon, Gaza -
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Bill McGee, Senior Fellow for Aviation and Travel at the American Economic Liberties Project, about how the Iran war is impacting the airline industry.
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President Trump was rushed away from the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday after shots were fired in the hotel. A man has been taken into custody.
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Between the war in Iran and high gas prices, President Trump needs to regain the voters' confidence ahead of the November midterm elections.
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Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. and Iran did not reach an agreement to end the war after meeting on Saturday. Control over the Strait of Hormuz remains a flash point in the war.
