In the Line of Fire

Reporting from the battlefront is becoming increasingly dangerous. So why do war correspondents keep venturing into deadly territory?

Levon Sevunts, the Montreal Gazette‘s foreign correspondent, felt lucky when Northern Alliance commander General Bashir offered to carry him and some other foreign correspondents aboard his armoured personnel carrier to some newly captured Taliban trenches. It was November 11, 2001, just after the fighting had subsided and the Taliban had begun their unexpected retreat from […]