Quotes by : Richard Engel

We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are....

I may have been in stage four, but I wasn’t completely crazy. At least eighty-six journalists had been....

In 2015, when I went back to the States or to an international conference, I found that people didn’t....

Obviously it was happenstance, but it did change my opinion of human nature. I now saw war as a constant,....

It is a disturbing aspect of human nature that if there is a place where there are no consequences and....

Reporters go through four stages in a war zone. In the first stage, you’re Superman, invincible. In....

I could scarcely believe that my new home was engulfed by war before I even had time to find an apartment.....

When I first arrived in Baghdad in January 2003, I thought I would soon rent a house and envisioned myself....

The administration often used the analogy of planting the “seeds of democracy” in the Middle East,....

From seven hundred journalists at the beginning of March, the number had dwindled to about one hundred....