Leila Molana-Allen
@leilama.bsky.social
PBS Newshour Special Correspondent traversing the wider Middle East & Africa. Ex-TheEconomist. Mother of hounds, proud daughter of immigrants.
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Our @pbsnews.org team has just returned from an extensive trip through Afghanistan reporting on every aspect of life for Afghans, many of whom feel abandoned five years after the Taliban took power. Starting tonight, our six-part series filmed across this beautiful & beleaguered country.
August 20, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Our @pbsnews.org team has just returned from an extensive trip through Afghanistan reporting on every aspect of life for Afghans, many of whom feel abandoned five years after the Taliban took power. Starting tonight, our six-part series filmed across this beautiful & beleaguered country.
Join us next Thursday 28th at the Frontline Club for a night with @sallyhayd.bsky.social, telling stories of love and connection from the
world’s darkest war zones. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-...
world’s darkest war zones. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-...
Book talk: This is Also a Love Story
An event to mark the publication of Sally Hayden's second book, 'This is Also a Love Story: Searching for Good in a Divided World'.
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May 20, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Join us next Thursday 28th at the Frontline Club for a night with @sallyhayd.bsky.social, telling stories of love and connection from the
world’s darkest war zones. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-...
world’s darkest war zones. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-...
Nowruz Pirouz va Eid-e-shoma Mobarak. Feeling incredibly lucky to be safe at home to celebrate with my family. Praying the new year pulls us out of this darkness and brings safety, love and community to all.
March 20, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Nowruz Pirouz va Eid-e-shoma Mobarak. Feeling incredibly lucky to be safe at home to celebrate with my family. Praying the new year pulls us out of this darkness and brings safety, love and community to all.
I give you my weakness, my heaviness. I take the strength, warmth, power of your fire. It feels impossible to say happy chaharshanbe suri this year, so instead I’ll wish all of us a hopeful one. I say this every year, now I pray it’s true: Look to the light, for it’s always darkest before the dawn 🔥
March 18, 2026 at 2:03 AM
I give you my weakness, my heaviness. I take the strength, warmth, power of your fire. It feels impossible to say happy chaharshanbe suri this year, so instead I’ll wish all of us a hopeful one. I say this every year, now I pray it’s true: Look to the light, for it’s always darkest before the dawn 🔥
Join us tonight for a pressing Media Society discussion about the challenges of reporting the war in Iran, where I’ll be speaking alongside @fergalkeane.bsky.social and Gavin Esler. Get your tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iran-the-m....
IRAN - the Media at War
A Media Society debate on Zoom about how the media is covering the Iran War.
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March 17, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Join us tonight for a pressing Media Society discussion about the challenges of reporting the war in Iran, where I’ll be speaking alongside @fergalkeane.bsky.social and Gavin Esler. Get your tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iran-the-m....
"It feels like we're not human." 1,100 Afghan refugees, mostly women & kids, are trapped on a disused military base w/ Iranian missiles raining down overhead after Pres.Trump froze refugee visas. We secretly spoke w/ them; they have no shelters & are begging to be rescued
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Afghans stranded for a year by Trump's refugee freeze now caught in new war
President Trump’s decision to freeze refugee processing left thousands in limbo. For more than a year, 1,100 Afghan refugees who thought they were bound for the United States have been stranded on a d...
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March 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
"It feels like we're not human." 1,100 Afghan refugees, mostly women & kids, are trapped on a disused military base w/ Iranian missiles raining down overhead after Pres.Trump froze refugee visas. We secretly spoke w/ them; they have no shelters & are begging to be rescued
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As a new Supreme Leader was named, Iran’s people focused on the grief of burying their dead, killed in a heavy weekend of US-Israeli air strikes, while toxic smoke filled the skies of Tehran, burning oil from a bombed oil depot setting homes ablaze. Our story @pbsnews.org www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
As Iran war deepens, Khamenei’s son named new supreme leader
The U.S.-Israeli war in Iran is now in its 10th day with no signs of letting up. But President Trump insisted the war is “very complete,” adding the U.S. is far ahead of his four to five week estimate...
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March 10, 2026 at 9:57 PM
As a new Supreme Leader was named, Iran’s people focused on the grief of burying their dead, killed in a heavy weekend of US-Israeli air strikes, while toxic smoke filled the skies of Tehran, burning oil from a bombed oil depot setting homes ablaze. Our story @pbsnews.org www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.
March 7, 2026 at 11:06 PM
North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.
Emergency alert for incoming missiles has gone off again here in Doha, Qatari air defence currently engaging incoming fire in the sky. But gulf nations’ missile defence systems are starting to run low.
March 7, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Emergency alert for incoming missiles has gone off again here in Doha, Qatari air defence currently engaging incoming fire in the sky. But gulf nations’ missile defence systems are starting to run low.
Tonight on the PBS @NewsHour we’re live from Doha, Qatar. Tune in from 6pm EST/11pm GMT for the latest on the conflict burning through the Middle East.
March 5, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Tonight on the PBS @NewsHour we’re live from Doha, Qatar. Tune in from 6pm EST/11pm GMT for the latest on the conflict burning through the Middle East.
BREAKING: Israel has launched air strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut. @IDF statement says Hezbollah militants fired rockets across the border. Israel has continued to strike southern Lebanon almost daily since the November 2024 ceasefire but rarely extended to the capital
March 2, 2026 at 1:15 AM
BREAKING: Israel has launched air strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut. @IDF statement says Hezbollah militants fired rockets across the border. Israel has continued to strike southern Lebanon almost daily since the November 2024 ceasefire but rarely extended to the capital
Massive strike on Tehran’s Vanak Sq this morning, in a densely populated residential area. All my family live in this neighbourhood, no contact with them since last night. Every Iranian is facing this cruel reality; an internet shutdown w/ comms almost impossible amidst terror of heavy bombing.
March 1, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Massive strike on Tehran’s Vanak Sq this morning, in a densely populated residential area. All my family live in this neighbourhood, no contact with them since last night. Every Iranian is facing this cruel reality; an internet shutdown w/ comms almost impossible amidst terror of heavy bombing.
Iranians taking to the streets last night to celebrate confirmation Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed by yesterday’s airstrikes. Joy & relief after decades of abuse; but many also don’t want their country bombed by Israel & US despite being happy Khamenei’s gone. Both can be concurrently true.
March 1, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Iranians taking to the streets last night to celebrate confirmation Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed by yesterday’s airstrikes. Joy & relief after decades of abuse; but many also don’t want their country bombed by Israel & US despite being happy Khamenei’s gone. Both can be concurrently true.
BREAKING: At least 200 people have been killed and 747 injured so far in US-Israeli strikes across 24 provinces of Iran today, latest figures from the Iranian Red Crescent.
February 28, 2026 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: At least 200 people have been killed and 747 injured so far in US-Israeli strikes across 24 provinces of Iran today, latest figures from the Iranian Red Crescent.
At least 50 children have been killed & <60 injured in an Israeli air strike on a girls’ school in Minab in #Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, per state media. Unlike overnight attacks last year, Israel’s strikes this morning apparently timed to inflict maximum damage, casualties & disruption.
February 28, 2026 at 4:19 PM
At least 50 children have been killed & <60 injured in an Israeli air strike on a girls’ school in Minab in #Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, per state media. Unlike overnight attacks last year, Israel’s strikes this morning apparently timed to inflict maximum damage, casualties & disruption.
Absolutely heartbroken at the devastating @washingtonpost.com layoffs. Gutting one of the world’s finest foreign reporting teams, staffed by some of the bravest, most insightful & hard-working journalists I know,
is destructive madness. My heart is with my friends and colleagues at the Post today❤️🩹
is destructive madness. My heart is with my friends and colleagues at the Post today❤️🩹
February 4, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Absolutely heartbroken at the devastating @washingtonpost.com layoffs. Gutting one of the world’s finest foreign reporting teams, staffed by some of the bravest, most insightful & hard-working journalists I know,
is destructive madness. My heart is with my friends and colleagues at the Post today❤️🩹
is destructive madness. My heart is with my friends and colleagues at the Post today❤️🩹
Thank you to the packed crowd who turned out to this excellent Frontline Club discussion last night - with brilliant panellists Kirsty Sutherland, Liz Harding and Xenia Wickett. Check out frontline.com/events for lots more in the coming weeks.
January 27, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Thank you to the packed crowd who turned out to this excellent Frontline Club discussion last night - with brilliant panellists Kirsty Sutherland, Liz Harding and Xenia Wickett. Check out frontline.com/events for lots more in the coming weeks.
The end of the world as we know it? Join us @frontlineclub on Monday 26th January with ICC barrister Kirsty Sutherland & former White House insider Xenia Wickett. Only a few tickets left, get yours now at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-disc...
January 19, 2026 at 11:22 AM
The end of the world as we know it? Join us @frontlineclub on Monday 26th January with ICC barrister Kirsty Sutherland & former White House insider Xenia Wickett. Only a few tickets left, get yours now at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-disc...
My first run in over a year, with these fluffy mascots for support. It feels good to be back. Treasure your health, gang - you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.
January 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
My first run in over a year, with these fluffy mascots for support. It feels good to be back. Treasure your health, gang - you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.
Sending love and light to all my Iranian family and friends gathering together for Shab-e-Yalda, and wishing you community through this longest of nights. Remember that it’s always
darkest before the dawn.
darkest before the dawn.
December 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Sending love and light to all my Iranian family and friends gathering together for Shab-e-Yalda, and wishing you community through this longest of nights. Remember that it’s always
darkest before the dawn.
darkest before the dawn.
Masked gangs of Israeli settlers marauding through the streets armed with bats and Molotov cocktails. Cars and homes smashed apart and set on fire. This is now the daily reality for Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. Our @pbsnews.org film.
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Israeli settlers attack Palestinians with impunity, halting West Bank olive harvest
Israel's cabinet voted to extend legal status to 19 previously illegal settlements late last night, formalizing more control of land in the West Bank. Attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinian co...
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December 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Masked gangs of Israeli settlers marauding through the streets armed with bats and Molotov cocktails. Cars and homes smashed apart and set on fire. This is now the daily reality for Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. Our @pbsnews.org film.
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Tonight on the PBS Newshour @pbsnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Tonight on the PBS Newshour @pbsnews.org