Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News International Editor, and the author of Sandstorm; Libya in the Time of Revolution, an account of the fall of Colonel Gaddafi.
She also reported the "Arab Spring" from Egypt and Bahrain. She reported from Belgrade in 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia, from Baghdad during the 2003 US invasion, and covered the Fallujah assault in November 2004. Her reports from Africa, the Middle East and Russia have earned her several awards. From 2006-8 she was the Channel 4 News China Correspondent, based in Beijing. In 1994, she was the only English-speaking journalist in Rwanda when the genocide started.
She has been with Channel 4 News since 1996.
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New details and images emerge about the final stages of the manhunt for the Boston bombing suspects - including an SUV shootout in Watertown, and the arrest of the injured final suspect.
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"I feel relief that this has come to an end ... so that we can get some answers" - Watertown resident Sandy Jaffe reveals the final stages of the Boston bombing suspect manhunt.
"We want answers," a woman clutching the stars and stripes tells Channel 4 News, as others broke into song, on the street where the second Boston Marathon bomb suspect was arrested.
Former president Pervez Musharraf flees a court in Pakistan after it ordered his arrest for detaining senior judges when he imposed emergency rule in 2007.
The west is caught on the horns of a dilemma: do nothing and watch more Syrians die, or send weapons, knowing that they may end up in the hands of al-Qaeda.
North Korea is prone to extreme rhetoric, so should current threats be a matter for concern, and how did we get to this current impasse anyway?
Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy that the west's failure to intervene in Syria means the Assad government could go on killing people for another two or three years.
What's in a handbag? If that bag is carried by China's first lady, perhaps a symbol of the stylish confidence the country is now exuding.
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, whose death has been announced, was the father of modern African writing. International Editor Lindsey Hilsum looks back on his remarkable achievements.
A decade since the war in Iraq, a YouGov poll reveals half the British people are against giving Syria's rebels any military hardware whatsoever.
With the start of Operation Shock and Awe unfolding in front of them, the Channel 4 News crew received an unwelcome visit to their room in Baghdad's Hotel Palestine.
Pollution is now the number one topic of conversation in Beijing, as the Chinese begin to question why polluting industries are receiving so much financial help from the state.
The future for Chinese girls is looking increasingly positive with a dramatic culture shift.
With rumours of vote-rigging marring Kenya's elections, will the close-run result lead to a repeat of violence seen the last time, asks Lindsey Hilsum.
Following a massive turnout, votes are still being counted in the Kenyan election and, with the outcome still uncertain, the mood is tense.
Westerners should not class Africans by their tribe as this shows colonial thinking - but this is exactly how many of them class themselves, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
Top al-Qaeda commander Abu Zeid is reported to have been killed in Mali. If true, his death will be counted by France as one of their most important victories. But who will rise up to take his place?
You see him here, you see him there - the Syrian man with an uncanny knack of turning up whenever the cameras roll has become a figure of fun for Syrian exiles. And he's not alone.
As Charlotte Bronte once said: "There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil!" And for me, the same can be said of the word "inappropriate".
As seven French tourists are kidnapped in Cameroon, International Editor Lindsey Hilsum asks if groups linked to al-Qaeda are implementing a widening war against the west.
