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About Leila @leila_ma

Leila Molana-Allen is a roving Special Correspondent for the Newshour, reporting from across the wider Middle East and Africa. She has been based in the region, in Beirut and Baghdad, for a decade.

Molana-Allen spent months reporting from the front lines of the Israel-Gaza war, uncovering the aftermath of the October 7 terror attacks and investigating human rights abuses in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Earlier in 2023 she investigated the growth of Palestinian militant groups inside Jenin and Nablus after the IDF assault on Jenin camp and reported from the ongoing anti-government protests across Israel. Molana-Allen gained rare access to enter North-West Syria's besieged enclave to report on recovery efforts after the devastating earthquake and ongoing Russian and Syrian regime assaults on civilians in Idlib and Aleppo. She has produced ongoing reporting on growing radicalism and violence in ISIS camps and prisons in North-East Syria. In 2021, Molana-Allen embedded with US forces in Iraq under daily assault from Iran-backed militias, and accompanied Iraqi forces as they hunted down ISIS sleeper cells, coming under fire from ISIS militants in hiding. Molana-Allen led the first TV crew to gain access to the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion for the Newshour, after months reporting from the midst of anti-government protests and the ensuing violent crackdown.

Before joining the Newshour, Molana-Allen was a foreign correspondent for The Economist in London, a correspondent for BBC World Service Radio, and Middle East Correspondent for FRANCE 24. Raised in a first generation British-Iranian family in London, Molana-Allen gained her bachelor's degree from University of Oxford and a Masters of Science from the Columbia School of Journalism.

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Leila’s Recent Stories

World Oct 22

Lebanese healthcare workers caught in the line of fire from Israeli airstrikes

The Israeli military said it killed the man set to succeed Hezbollah's longtime leader who was also assassinated in late September. As the war between Israel and Hezbollah expands, its toll on civilians in Lebanon is only worsening. Israeli airstrikes…

World Oct 16

Israel resumes bombardment on Beirut’s suburbs

Israel resumed punishing airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs and across central and southern Lebanon. More than 130 strikes targeted what Israel says were Hezbollah operatives and locations. Israel's military also said more than 90 Hezbollah rockets were fired into northern…

World Oct 15

Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill civilians and threaten safe havens for the displaced

The U.S. said Tuesday it did not approve of Israel's bombing campaign in Beirut over the last several weeks that has led to major civilian casualties. Far from Beirut in northern Lebanon, a deadly Israeli airstrike targeted one Hezbollah member…

World Oct 14

Israeli attack on tent camp outside hospital in Gaza kills at least 4, injures dozens

A weekend of death and destruction gave way to another day of carnage Monday in Gaza and Lebanon as Israeli forces struck multiple sites in both places. Israel suffered its own losses as troops came under fire from Hezbollah. But…

World Oct 13

Civilians feel nowhere is safe as Israel expands and intensifies strikes in Lebanon

Israel is stepping up its bombardment of Gaza and Lebanon as it wages a multi-front war against Hamas and Hezbollah. In southern Lebanon, an Israeli airstrike on a century-old market killed one person and wounded several others, as Israeli Prime…

World Oct 11

Israel injures UN peacekeepers again, raising more concerns about its operation in Lebanon

It was another day of widening war in Lebanon. Israeli troops fired again on U.N. positions, wounding two. IDF troops also fired on Lebanese Armed Forces. All this as Hezbollah militants fired dozens more rockets into Israel. But as Leila…

World Oct 10

U.N. accuses Israel of firing on its peacekeepers in southern Lebanon

The United Nations said its peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon came under attack by Israeli forces. Israel invaded last month to press its military campaign against Hezbollah militants. The UN peacekeeping force is charged with keeping the border between Lebanon…

World Oct 09

More civilians in Lebanon displaced and in dire need amid Israel’s battle with Hezbollah

Thousands upon thousands of Lebanese are fleeing Israeli bombing across southern and central Lebanon as Hezbollah continues its rocket and missile fire into northern Israel. As fears of all-out regional war mount, special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen sits down with the…

World Oct 06

Lebanese civilians run from bombs, sleep on streets as Israel intensifies attacks

Israel carried out its heaviest bombardment of Beirut in its campaign against Hezbollah overnight. Civilians who had evacuated their homes returned to ash and rubble. Nearly one quarter of the Lebanese population has been displaced, with some living out of…

World Oct 04

Israeli raids in Lebanon displace a quarter of the country’s population

The Israeli bombing campaign and ground invasion of Lebanon continue with a quarter of the country's population displaced, most in just the last two weeks. Leila Molana-Allen reports from Saida, on Lebanon's southern coast, as the exhausted and terrified seek…

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