(CBS) Lara Logan was named a CBS News correspondent in May 2002 and has also contributes to 60 Minutes.

She provided daily reports on the war in Iraq and was the only journalist from an American network in Baghdad when American troops invaded the city, reporting live from Firdos Square as the statue of Saddam fell.

Logan has reported extensively from the frontlines of Afghanistan and has followed the Green Berets as they search for Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

Her other 60 Minutes II reports include an interview with the King of Swaziland, who was being sued by the mother of a girl who was forced to become his 10th wife, and a report on legalized assisted suicide in Switzerland.

Logan has served as a correspondent for GMTV, the weekday morning news program of Great Britain’s ITV (2000-02), and as a correspondent for CBS Radio News. She reported on the war in Afghanistan, the conflict in the Middle East, the Mozambique floods, the land invasions in Zimbabwe and the India earthquake.

Logan has received four American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Allen Awards: in 2004 for Individual Achievement for Best Reporter/Correspondent; in 2003 for Best News Story for her CBS Evening News report on the attempted assassination of Afghani President Hamid Kharzai; in 2000 for Best News Story for her CBS Radio News coverage of the violence in the Middle East, and in 2002 for Best News Story for her CBS Radio News coverage of the war in Afghanistan.

While in Afghanistan, she also filed reports for the CBS Evening News With Dan Rather, and The Early Show, in addition to contributing articles to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the United Kingdom’s Daily Mirror.

From 1996-99, Logan undertook several freelance assignments: as a correspondent for ITN and Fox/SKY, an assignment editor for CBS News and ABC News in London, and an editor/producer for NBC, CBS and the European Broadcast Union. Before that, she was a senior producer for Reuters Television in Africa (1992-96). Logan also served as a freelance correspondent for CNN (1998-99), for whom she covered the U.S. embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania, the conflict in Northern Ireland and the war in Kosovo, among other stories.

Her journalism career began as a general news reporter for the Daily News (1990-92) and the Sunday Tribune (1988-89), both located in Durban, South Africa.

Logan was born in Durban. She was graduated from the University of Natal in Durban in 1992 with a degree in commerce. She also earned a diploma in French language, culture and history from the Universite de L'Alliance Francaise in Paris. She speaks French, Afrikaans and basic Portuguese.

She lives in London with her husband, Jason Siemon, who plays professional basketball in England.