20 Facts About Sam Kiley

Sam Kiley was born on 1964 and is a Senior International Correspondent at CNN.

Sam Kiley is a journalist with over twenty years' experience, based at different times of his career in London, Los Angeles, Nairobi, Johannesburg and Jerusalem.

Sam Kiley has written for The Times, The Observer, The Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday newspapers, The Spectator and New Statesman weekly political news magazines, and reported for BBC Two, Sky One, Channel 4, and lately, Sky News.

Sam Kiley studied mime and commedia del arte under Neil Bartlett, director at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

In 1987, Sam Kiley joined The Times newspaper, where he became an education reporter.

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In 1996, Sam Kiley won the Granada Television Foreign Correspondent of the Year award for his coverage of the fall of the regime of President Mobutu in Zaire and, after being promoted to The Times Africa bureau chief, moved to Johannesburg in South Africa.

Sam Kiley was shot covering a coup attempt in Lesotho in 1998.

In 1999, Sam Kiley moved to Jerusalem where he became The Times Middle East bureau chief for two years, before resigning after a dispute with his editors.

Sam Kiley had succeeded in tracking down and interviewing the Israeli soldiers who had shot dead Mohammed al-Durrah, the 12-year-old boy who had become, posthumously, an icon of the intifada.

The instruction Sam Kiley received to file his piece "without mentioning the dead kid" was the last straw.

In 2002, Sam Kiley presented "Truth and Lies in Baghdad", part of Channel 4 television's main current affairs series, Dispatches.

Sam Kiley joined the channel full-time the following year and made many more programmes for Dispatches and for Unreported World, for both of which programmes he travelled across the world.

In 2005, Kiley made two series for Sky One: USA Unsolved with Sam Kiley and Guns for Hire, the latter of which was an investigation into modern mercenaries in the war zones of Congo and Afghanistan.

In November 2006, Sam Kiley produced a BBC2 observational documentary in Afghanistan, The General's War, for which he was granted exclusive and unprecedented access to British NATO General David Richards.

Sam Kiley returned to Channel 4, to make films in Cape Town, the Congo, the Palestinian Territories, Russia and Kosovo.

Since November 2010, Sam Kiley has worked for Sky News, first as security editor, then defence and security editor in 2012, and in November 2012 he became Sky News's Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem.

Sam Kiley was working with him, reporting on the disturbances in the Middle East at the time.

In 2009, Sam Kiley wrote the book Desperate Glory: At War in Helmand with Britain's 16 Air Assault Brigade, based on his experiences as the only journalist to ever cover a full operational tour in Afghanistan, when he joined 16 Air Assault Brigade on its 2008 six-month deployment to Helmand.

Sam Kiley has contributed essays to anthologies of writing among them: Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar, Simple Pleasures, Oxford Originals and is co-author of Journey Through Jordan with Duncan Willets and Mohammed Amin.

Sam Kiley is married to Melissa and has two children, Ella and Fynn.