Les Neuhaus, 38, is a freelance journalist based in the U.S.  Previously he worked as a war correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan for the Stars and Stripes newspaper.  Other experience includes working as a print correspondent for The Associated Press based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  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.  He has also covered breaking-news events in Chad, the Darfur region of Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, Rwanda and the DR Congo.

He has also contributed work, articles, photographs, commentary and more for such organizations as CNN International, Reuters, Al Jazeera (English), Global Radio News, France 24 (English), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Jane's Defence Weekly, National Public Radio, Small Arms Survey, Voice of America, the U.N.'s humanitarian news agency - IRIN, the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) 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 a B.A. in political science (international relations) from the University of Tennessee, at Knoxville, and prior to university, served several years in the U.S. Air Force with posts in Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. West.

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.