Jane Arraf is a correspondent for NBC News, currently covering Iraq. She was CNN's Baghdad Bureau Chief and Senior Baghdad Correspondent until September 2005 when she was appointed the Edward R Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. She returned to Iraq, for NBC, in September 2006.

Arraf joined CNN in 1997 as Baghdad Bureau Chief, covering Iraq through crisis, sanctions and finally war.

She was the only Western correspondent based in Iraq in the late 1990s. In 2001, she moved to Istanbul, Turkey to serve as the network's bureau chief there, returning to be based in Baghdad in 2002. She was expelled by the Iraqi government in the fall of 2002 after covering an unauthorized protest of families demanding information on their missing fathers, husbands and sons.

She covered the war in 2003 from north of Iraq, providing live coverage of the battle and its effect on the civilian population as cities and towns fell to US forces. She returned to Baghdad as Bureau Chief following the end of major combat operations.

From 2004 to September 2005, she was Senior Baghdad Correspondent, spending most of her time embedded with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps on the front lines in Iraq, including the battle for Najaf, Samarra, Fallujah and Tel Afar.

She has also reported on the war in Kosovo, covering the flood of Kosovar refugees into Albania, covered India and Kashmir and the Arab Gulf states.

Before joining CNN, Arraf worked for Reuters Financial Television in Washington, where her assignments included covering the White House, Capitol Hill and the Treasury Department.

Arraf also served as Reuters Bureau Chief in Jordan from 1990 to 1993.

There, she reported on stories through the Gulf crisis to the Middle East peace process. Arraf reported extensively from Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War.

She began her career as a Reuters correspondent in Montreal. She also covered U.S. troops in Bosnia and the fall of the military regime in Haiti.

Arraf studied journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa.