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Diyar Kurda is a Kurdish journalist and Washington D.C. Bureau Chief for Rudaw Media Network, one of the leading media outlets in the Middle East. While still an undergraduate, Diyar joined Rudaw in 2015 as Editor of the International Desk. In July 2020, he became the head of the planning department at the same media outlet. Since, 2022, he serves as the Washington D.C. Bureau Chief of Rudaw and senior political correspondent. Diyar currently covers White House, the State Department andPentagon, regularly attending press briefings and asking questions about Middle East, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Kurdish issues in the region. During his time as a journalist in Washington D.C., Diyar has conducted many interviews with current and former U.S. officials on Middle East and Iraq affairs, including John Kirby, United States National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications; Major General Patric Ryder, US Department of Defense Spokesperson; John Bolton, Former National Security Advisor; Geoffrey Pyatt, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State; Victoria Taylor, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iraq and Iran Affairs; Andrew Plitt, Senior USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Middle East Region; and Karen Chandler, Director of the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs (PM). He has also interviewed many members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Diyar has written extensively on U.S. national security and foreign policy toward the Middle East, Iraq, and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), including coverage of the fight against ISIS and the future security of the region. Born and raised in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Diyar graduated among the top three students from the University of Kurdistan Hewler (UKH), the region’s leading university. He is Currently study Master in Arts: US Foreign Policy and National Security at the American University in Washington D.C.
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