Les Neuhaus, 37, is a freelance print, radio and photojournalist (and independent researcher) based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has worked as a war correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan for the Stars and Stripes newspaper. Previously, he was the print correspondent for The Associated Press in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He also covered events in Chad, the Darfur region of Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia and Kenya for The AP. Through The AP his stories appeared in more than a thousand newspapers and magazines around the world, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, TIME Magazine Online and more.

Les now represents the Paris- and New York-based photo agency, Sipa Press, and is a graduate of the Centurion hostile-environment training course at Heckfield Place, England.

He has also contributed articles, photographs and commentary for such organizations as Global Radio News, France 24 (English), Jane's Defence Weekly, National Public Radio, Voice of America, the U.N.'s humanitarian news agency - IRIN, the European Pressphoto Agency, Vice Magazine and more.

He has a B.A. in political science (international relations) from the University of Tennessee, at Knoxville, and prior to university, served four years in the U.S. Air Force with posts in Europe and the Middle East.

His journalism career began at a small daily newspaper called The Creston News-Advertiser on Sept. 10, 2001 in Iowa. Les was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.