Rageh Omaar

Rageh Omaar is currently the International Affairs Editor at ITV News. Over the past 15 years he has covered some of the highest profile global events and crises.

Formerly senior BBC foreign correspondent, he came to global prominence as the face of the BBC Television News during the invasion of Iraq. He is remembered by many reporting from a hotel rooftop during the fall of Baghdad in 2003. During the conflict his reports were syndicated across the United States by ABC News.

He has won numerous international awards including a Peabody Award for his reports for the BBC from Darfur and a BAFTA for the BBC’s coverage of the invasion of Afghanistan in which he was the only western TV journalist to report from inside Taliban-held Kabul.