[1][2] She previously worked for the Christian Science Monitor[3] and as CNN's Baghdad Bureau Chief and Senior Correspondent.

She covered the White House, Capitol Hill and the United States Department of the Treasury.

Arraf returned to Turkey, and after the end of large-scale hostilities, she again headed the CNN bureau in Baghdad.

Prior to NPR, she worked for NBC, PBS NewsHour and Al Jazeera English.

[1] She was fired from the Times in 2023 amid an investigation by the paper into whether she overpaid Iraqi journalists and after raising safety and legal issues with the newspaper.