Brent Sadler
Senior International Correspondent

"From Iraq to Iran, Beirut to Baghdad and from East to West, I have been a front-line witness to war for three decades. But reporting armed conflict from the battlefield may never have been as dangerous as it is today."

CNN

1991–2009

For 18 years, Sadler was an internationally renowned CNN broadcaster at the heart of breaking world news coverage from the Middle East and Africa, reporting on many defining moments in history and winning numerous coveted awards.

Brent Sadler joined CNN in 1991 after 10 years as a news reporter for the British network Independent Television News (ITN). Sadler was ITN's Middle East correspondent for more than four years and also worked for two years as an ITN senior reporter.

He then became CNN's Bureau Chief in Rome, later moving to Lebanon where he was CNN's Beirut Bureau Chief.

With his considerable knowledge and experience, in 2009 he moved from news to take on CNN's feature programming in the Middle East and North Africa region.

In parallel with his feature presenting assignments for CNN, Sadler built up a consultancy for strategic communications through the Beirut Media Center in Lebanon of which he was Chairman and Managing Director.

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CNN VIDEO GALLERY

  • CNN Sign-offs
  • ''Primetime'' CNN anchor Anderson Cooper talks to Brent Sadler who looks back on his long career reporting from Lebanon in the aftermath of the bomb attack that killed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, 2005
  • Sadler appears on CNN’s ''International Hour'' with Ralph Begleiter discussing the horrors of war in the Chechen capital, Grozny, in 1994
  • NATO’s controversial bombing of the RTS (Radio Television Serbia) studios in Belgrade, Serbia during the conflict over Kosovo in 1999. Sixteen RTS members of staff died in the attack that failed to shut down the state broadcaster for more than a few hours
  • The hunt for Osama bin Laden in the mountains of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, 2001
  • Having published one of the first stories in the career of superstar musician Sir Elton John, Sadler meets him in Lebanon
  • An exclusive Sadler report on US Special Forces targeting the military positions of Saddam Hussein in Northern Iraq, 2003
  • Brent Sadler’s exclusive report from inside Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit on April 13, 2003 some 48 hours ahead of US forces. It almost cost him and his news team their lives during a controversial exchange of machine gunfire during which their bodyguard shot at pursuing Iraqis
  • A close-up report into the star-studded world of fashion designer Elie Saab and a glimpse of Brent Sadler on a catwalk!
  • Brent Sadler’s last interview with five-times Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri before he was assassinated in a suicide bombing in Beirut in 2005
  • CNN report on the day five-times Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in Beirut on February 14, 2005
  • The Hariris. The tragic yet uplifting story behind the family of slain Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri
  • CNN report for ''Inside the Middle East'' by Brent Sadler in the Lebanese ski resort of Faraya Mzaar
  • CNN report by Brent Sadler for ''Inside the Middle East'' on the opening of the Formula One racetrack in Abu Dhabi
  • See what it’s like when a cruise missile strikes the Al Rasheed hotel in Baghdad in 1993 and the aftermath of the explosion as reported on CNN