Anne Garrels is a senior foreign correspondent for NPR. She has spent the past six years in Iraq, covering the country under Saddam Hussein's regime and through the U.S. invasion and its aftermath. One of 16 U.S. journalists to remain in Baghdad during the initial phase of the war, she wrote about her experiences there in Naked in Baghdad (2003). Before joining NPR in 1988, she was the State Department correspondent for NBC News, following a decade at ABC News as the network’s Central American bureau chief, and earlier, as correspondent and bureau chief in Moscow before she was expelled in 1982. From Tiananmen Square to the battlegrounds of Chechnya, from Bosnia to Kosovo, Israel to Iraq, Garrels has covered conflict around the world. Her recent work in Iraq alone has been honored with the George Polk Award, the 2004 CPB Edward R. Murrow Award, the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation, the Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award and the University of Missouri Medal for Distinguished Service to Journalism, among others.