Barbara Starr Biography

Barbara Starr is CNN's Pentagon correspondent based in Washington D.C. Starr provides viewers with the latest national security news each day from the Pentagon working her sources to report on the military campaigns against ISIS investigations in terror attacks and military and intelligence operations. Starr appears regularly on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer New Day and other shows across the network regularly breaking big news and delivering exclusive coverage on the U.S. military and political situation on a global scale.
In 2014 The Panetta Institute for Public Policy honored Starr with a Jefferson-Lincoln Award for her work in journalism. Since 2003 Starr has made repeated trips to Iraq Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa where she has been embedded with U.S. troops. She traveled to Beirut Lebanon in 2006 with U.S. Marines tasked with evacuating Americans during Israel's war with Hezbollah. Starr has also reported directly from the Persian Gulf Russia Central America and the Chinese-North Korean border. In 2016 Starr was the only broadcast journalist to travel to Iraq and Syria with commanding general of U.S. Central Command Gen. Joseph Votel the highest-ranking U.S. military official to travel into Syria during the war to report on the global fight and special operations training of local forces to combat ISIS.

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