I focus on the human aspect of wars and civil strife, exposing human rights abuses and war crimes, explaining and understanding terrorism, revealing the people forced to become refugees and migrants, and describing life under repressive regimes and the social resistance to them.
I began my newspaper career at The Moscow Times in the 1990s, reporting in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union. I joined The Times in 1999 and covered the war in Kosovo and the fall of President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia. I spent 10 years reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan after the attacks of 9/11. I was based in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, from 2013-17, covering the aftershocks of the Arab Spring. And from 2017-22, I was the Istanbul bureau chief, covering Turkey and northern Syria. I have been published in The Economist and The Financial Times.
My recent work has included investigations into Saudi Arabia’s influence on the post-conflict societies of Kosovo and Afghanistan as part of a series on the Gulf kingdom, and another on growing Iranian interference in Afghanistan as part of a series on Iran. I was part of a Times team that received the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009 and a team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for reporting from Ukraine in 2023. I’ve also won an Overseas Press Club award for human rights for reporting from Bucha, Ukraine.
I speak French, Russian and Spanish. I am the author “The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan 2001-2014,” and co-author, with Thomas de Waal, of “Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus.”
I was educated in Newnham College, Cambridge, with a degree in French and Russian.
Like all Times journalists, I am committed to upholding the standards of integrity outlined in our Ethical Journalism Handbook. I work hard to make sure my reporting is accurate and fair. I believe in the importance of traveling to the scene to verify events, reporting what I see and what people on the ground say. I do not accept money or favors from anyone who might figure in my reporting and I do not pay anyone for an interview. I do not participate in politics, nor do I make political donations.
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The fall of the city, when it came in mid-February, was brutal and fast. Soldiers fought for their lives. Many did not make it.
By Carlotta Gall, Oleksandr Chubko and Lynsey Addario
Ukrainian farmers and miners and their families who live to the west of the recently captured Avdiivka are poised to flee in the face of a Russian onslaught.
By Carlotta Gall and Oleksandr Chubko
On frozen roads with frozen pens, a reporter navigates bunkers and interviews weary soldiers.
By Carlotta Gall
The tally that President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed on Sunday differs sharply from that given by U.S. officials, who have said the number is closer to 70,000.
By Carlotta Gall and Constant Méheut
Despite death, destruction and deprivation, nearly 90 percent still believe in Ukraine’s ultimate victory — as long as Western aid continues.
By Carlotta Gall and Lynsey Addario
European and other Western leaders gathered in Kyiv to pledge support for Ukraine amid U.S. reluctance, while its troops suffer growing losses on the battlefield, where the Russians have been gaining ground.
By Marc Santora
With Ukraine’s forces at risk of encirclement, the top military commander ordered a retreat. In startlingly candid accounts, soldiers described disarray and despair.
By Carlotta Gall, Marc Santora and Constant Méheut
Seven people from two families died in the inferno in Kharkiv on Friday night, as burning oil flowed like lava. “People were doomed,” an official said.
By Oleksandr Chubko, Carlotta Gall and Lynsey Addario
Human rights groups said the attack on the Ukrainian port city pointed to unlawful actions by top Russian leaders.
By Carlotta Gall
Mirza Ramic, a Bosnian who sought refuge in the United States, is bringing his electronic music to Ukraine, “to show my support in these hard times.”
By Carlotta Gall
