Paul Wood

Travels in Isis country: priests, Peshmerga and property developers

From the Kurdish boom city of Erbil to the disputed towns where Kurds fled the Islamic State

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Paul Wood
Paul Wood was a BBC foreign correspondent for 25 years, in Belgrade, Athens, Cairo, Jerusalem, Kabul and Washington DC. He has won numerous awards, including two US Emmys for his coverage of the Syrian civil war

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