Toby Harnden has been the US Editor of The Daily Telegraph of London since 2006, overseeing all aspects of the Telegraph Media Group’s American coverage. He is a weekly columnist on American politics for The Sunday Telegraph and has reported from all 50 US states.
As The Sunday Telegraph’s Chief Foreign Correspondent from 2005 to 2006, he reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Bahrain, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Austria, Italy, Estonia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the United States and Thailand. In 2005, he was imprisoned in Zimbabwe for 14 days after being arrested and charged with "practicing journalism without accreditation".
From 2003, he was Middle East Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, based in Jerusalem but travelled extensively throughout the region. Harnden he spent much of 2004 and 2005 covering the war in Iraq. He was a "unilateral" reporter during the siege of Najaf in August 2004 and three months later was embedded with the US Army's Task Force 2-2 during the battle of Fallujah.
From 1999 to 2003, he was The Daily Telegraph's Washington bureau chief. He was in Washington on September 11th 2001. He joined The Daily Telegraph in 1994 as a home news reporter before being posted to Belfast as the newspaper's Ireland Correspondent in 1996. He subsequently covered the Good Friday Agreement and the Omagh bombing of 1998 as well as numerous explosions, ceasefires, shootings, riots, marches and political crises. The culmination of his work in Northern Ireland was the publication of "Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh" (Hodder & Stoughton 1999), which has sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide and is considered essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the Irish Troubles.
Born in 1966, he hails originally from Manchester and took his degree at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, being awarded a First in Modern History in 1988. He served as an officer in the Royal Navy from 1985 to 1994. He lives with his wife Cheryl and their young children Tessa and Miles in McLean, Virginia.
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