Associated Press News Director, Kate de Pury, spoke to Women in Foreign Policy about how the fall of the Soviet Union started her career in journalism and lead to her reporting on Russia, Putin, and wars in Chechnya and Georgia.

Kim Ghattas is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is writing a book about the impact of the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia on the wider region since 1979. Ghattas was the BBC’s State Department correspondent, traveling regularly with the U.S. Secretary of State between 2008 and 2013. She was part of an Emmy Award-winning BBC team covering the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006. 

Rebecca Frankel is the author of War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love, a New York Times bestselling book about canines in combat. Frankel lives in Washington, D.C. with her dog Dyngo, a former military working dog who is now happily retired from his bomb-sniffing career in the Air Force.