Martha Raddatz is ABC News’ chief global affairs correspondent and
co-anchor of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” She has
covered national security, foreign policy and politics for decades —
reporting from the State Department, the White House, and conflict
zones around the world.

She began covering wars during the crisis in Bosnia in the late 1990s,
but Iraq and Afghanistan are where she has spent most of her time
overseas. Even during her stint as a White House correspondent during
former President George W. Bush’s administration, she continued to
make regular trips to war-torn Iraq.

Raddatz was embedded with U.S. forces during dozens of trips abroad,
from the sands of Al Anbar province to the mountains of the Hindu
Kush. She is the only television reporter allowed to fly in an F-15
fighter jet on combat missions over Afghanistan, spending nearly 10
hours in the air on two separate missions. In 2011, she reported
exclusive details on the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. That same
year, she was one of the few reporters on the last major convoy out of
Iraq. She also had an exclusive interview on the USS Kearsarge, off
the coast of Libya, with the Marines who helped rescue two American
pilots who had gone down in Libya. In 2012, Raddatz was on a U.S.
destroyer as it made its way through the Strait of Hormuz. She
reported exclusively from the USS George H.W. Bush, covering the
airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and Iraq in 2014, and again in March
2016 from the USS Truman. In 2015, Raddatz was granted exclusive
access to the anti-ISIS command center at an undisclosed location in
the Middle East, and she anchored “This Week” from an airbase
conducting drone warfare. Raddatz also covered both summits between
former President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and
was one of only a handful of journalists who reported from North Korea
in 2018.

In addition, her reporting trips have taken her to Yemen, Iran,
Pakistan, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, India, Turkey, Libya, Oman,
the United Arab Emirates, and numerous countries in Africa and in
Asia.

In October 2012, Raddatz moderated the only vice presidential debate
between Congressman Paul Ryan and then Vice President Joe Biden,
covering both domestic and foreign topics. Post-debate, Raddatz
received an outpouring of praise for asking pointed questions on a
range of issues while asserting control over the conversation. She
received the Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in political
journalism with a special commendation for debate moderation. During
the 2016 election, Raddatz co-moderated the Democratic and Republican
primary presidential debates on ABC as well as a presidential debate
between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, for which she once again
received praise for her moderating skills. Raddatz also reported from
the Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection when
supporters of former President Trump attempted to overturn the results
of the 2020 presidential election.

Raddatz has traveled to Iran numerous times, including in 2020 after a
U.S. airstrike killed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani. She has
interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine,
one-on-one three times, in July 2023, June 2025, and most recently in
September 2025. Raddatz also anchored “This Week” from Israel
while reporting on the Israel-Hamas war and spoke with White House
national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Israeli Lt. Col. Jonathan
Conricus. Raddatz was present in Ukraine at the time of the Russian
invasion and was in Israel in the days following the Oct. 7 Hamas
attack. In May 2025, Raddatz interviewed and spoke with Kremlin press
secretary Dmitry Peskov about the state of peace talks with Ukraine.
She has made numerous trips to Ukraine since the invasion and
continues to cover both the war there and the conflict in the Middle
East.

From 1993 to 1998, Raddatz was the Pentagon correspondent for National
Public Radio (NPR). Prior to joining NPR, she was the chief
correspondent at the ABC News Boston affiliate, WCVB-TV. In addition
to covering several presidential campaigns, she reported from the
former Soviet Union, Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines and
Europe.

In 2012, Raddatz received the First Amendment Award from the Radio
Television Digital News Foundation (RTDNF) for excellence in
journalism, as well as the prestigious Fred Friendly First Amendment
Award. She received seven Emmy® Awards, including for being on the
teams covering the inauguration of Barack Obama and the killing of
Osama Bin Laden, and a Peabody Award for being on the team that
covered the attacks of Sept. 11. Raddatz was also the recipient of the
2007 International Urbino Press Award, the 2005 Daniel Pearl Award
from the Chicago Journalists Association, and a 1996 Overseas Press
Club Award for her live coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak
Rabin. In 2007, the White House Correspondents’ Association awarded
her the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for excellence in presidential
news coverage under deadline pressure. In 2018, she received the
George Catlett Marshall Medal for sustained commitment to the men and
women of America’s armed forces.

Raddatz is the author of “The Long Road Home—A Story of War and
Family,” the highly acclaimed book about a battle in Iraq that made
both The New York Times and The Washington Post bestseller lists. The
Washington Post described the book as “a masterpiece of literary
nonfiction that rivals any war-related classic that has preceded
it.” In 2017, the book was made into an eight-part scripted
miniseries that aired on the National Geographic Channel. Raddatz’s
second book, “The Hero Next Door – Stories of Patriotism and
Purpose,” which shares stories of American warriors’ and their
families superhuman sacrifice and resilience — on and off the
battlefield — publishes in May 2026.

Raddatz is the mother of two children. She is also on the board of the
Bob Woodruff Foundation, which supports wounded veterans and their
families.
