PERSON: Nic Robertson

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Nic Robertson (born 1962) is the international diplomatic editor of CNN. Robertson joined CNN in 1990 and is currently the network’s international diplomatic editor, based in London. His reporting has focused on global terrorism and armed conflict, particularly in Afghanistan, the former Yugoslavia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya.

In the 1990s, Robertson covered the breakup of Yugoslavia as a producer and reported from Baghdad, Iraq, during the First Gulf War. He was one of very few Western broadcast journalists reporting from Afghanistan at the time of the September 11 attacks in 2001. He reported from Iraq in 2002 and early 2003 in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq by the United States; from New Orleans in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; from Beirut in 2006 during the Israel-Lebanon crisis; and from Norway in the aftermath of the 2011 massacre perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik. During the Arab Spring, Robertson reported from Libya, covering the Libyan Civil War and interviewing Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Al-Saadi Gaddafi (the sons of Muammar Gaddafi) and Iman al-Obeidi. Robertson reported from Bahrain during the Bahraini uprising of 2011 and was the only Western television journalist to interview Salman, Crown Prince of Bahrain. He went into Gaza on an embed with the Israeli army during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.

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