Iona Craig, ASU Future of War Fellow, is a British-Irish freelance investigative journalist. Since 2010 her work has focused on Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula. Iona lived in Sana'a from 2010 through 2014 as the Times (of London) Yemen correspondent, covering Yemen’s revolution, America’s growing covert war in the country, and the civil war that began in 2014. She regularly returns to Yemen and has repeatedly crossed the front lines to report on both sides of Yemen’s ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis.
Her work has won numerous awards, including the 2016 Orwell Prize for journalism, the United Kingdom’s most prestigious honor for political writing, and the 2014 Martha Gellhorn Prize, Britain’s leading investigative journalism award. Her investigation for the Intercept of a Navy SEAL raid in a remote Yemeni village won the 2018 George Polk Award for foreign reporting.