Louisa Loveluck

London

Education: University of Cambridge, BA in Social and Political Sciences

Louisa Loveluck is a London-based correspondent for The Washington Post, covering global crises. She was the paper's Baghdad Bureau Chief from 2019-2023, reporting on corruption, climate change, and the legacy of the U.S.-led invasion of 2003. She was previously based in Beirut, covering the war in Syria and publishing a series of investigations into the fate of the country's tens of thousands of imprisoned and missing people. Before joining the paper, Louisa was the Daily Telegraph's Cairo correspondent, reporting on the military coup that unseated Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the dea
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Syrian rebels regrouped, seized on weakness of government’s key allies  

The rebels have made stunning gains against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, with Russia, Iran and Hezbollah distracted by other conflicts.

December 1, 2024
Anti-government fighters drive military vehicles along a road in eastern Aleppo province in Syria on Sunday.

Israeli strikes test cease-fire; IDF warns displaced Lebanese not to return

Israeli tank and artillery fire struck several villages, Lebanon’s state media reported, as the Israeli military warned civilians not to return to the area.

November 28, 2024
Lebanese families returned to their damaged homes in Tyre after a cease-fire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel went into effect on Nov. 27.

ICC arrest warrants accuse Netanyahu, Gallant of war crimes in Gaza

The International Criminal Court said the alleged crimes include starvation as a method of warfare, murder, persecution and other inhumane acts.

November 21, 2024
A displaced Palestinian boy walks amid the rubble of destroyed homes in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on Thursday.

With Trump win, Israeli minister calls to annex parts of West Bank

Comments Monday by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich were the strongest display yet of how Trump’s election has emboldened Israeli hard-liners.

November 11, 2024
Jalqamus, a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank.

    Dispatch: Rescue workers face attacks in southern Lebanon

    The Post's Louisa Loveluck traveled to southern Lebanon on Oct. 26, where rescue workers are increasingly in the crosshairs of Israeli airstrikes.

    November 7, 2024

    Lebanese first responders say they are being targeted by Israeli strikes

    At least 178 Lebanese emergency workers have been killed in Israeli attacks since last October. Three-quarters of the deaths have occurred in the past six weeks.

    November 6, 2024

    Israeli forces used civilians as human shields in Gaza, Palestinians and soldiers say

    Palestinians describe being forced to carry out life-threatening tasks by Israeli forces in Gaza.

    November 3, 2024
    Israeli reservists stop at a military staging area near the Gaza border in southern Israel on May 21.

    On Baalbek’s edges, the displaced watch strikes rain down on their city

    Fleeing the Lebanese city of Baalbek ahead of Israeli airstrikes, thousands find shelter — but not necessarily peace of mind — in Deir al-Ahmar.

    October 31, 2024
    Women watch the bombing of Baalbek from a school in Deir al-Ahmar where they took shelter. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)

    More than 90 killed in north Gaza strike as Israel bans U.N. relief agency

    The deadly attack came a day after Israel voted to ban operations by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, Gaza’s leading humanitarian provider.

    October 29, 2024
    People search the rubble for missing persons at the site of an Israeli strike a day earlier that hit the Al-Loh family home in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

    Israeli forces kill 3 journalists in Lebanon, raid hospital in north Gaza

    The top U.N. human rights official said Friday that the “darkest moment of the conflict in Gaza is unfolding in the north.”

    October 25, 2024