Imtiaz Tyab

Imtiaz Tyab is an award-winning journalist and senior foreign correspondent for CBS News, based in London. He reports across all platforms, including the "CBS Evening News," "CBS Mornings", "CBS Sunday Morning," "Face the Nation" and CBS News 24/7. Since joining the network in April 2019, Tyab has reported on many of the world's most consequential stories, delivering deeply reported accounts from conflict zones, disaster sites, and geopolitical flashpoints around the world.

Tyab was among the first reporters on the ground in Israel to report on the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks in 2023. Since then, he has reported on the Israel-Hamas conflict and hostage crisis, the devastation in Gaza, and Israel's deepening confrontation with Iran. He was in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, when the Israeli military launched major strikes against Hezbollah targets, including the assassination of long-time leader Hassan Nasrallah. In June 2025, in the immediate aftermath of the 12-day war between Iran and Israel, Tyab became the first U.S. broadcast network correspondent to report from inside Iran. Reporting from Tehran, he and his team secured the first interview with Iran's foreign minister since the conflict. They also spoke to ordinary Iranians about their fears and reported on one of the largest pro-regime demonstrations the capital had seen in years.

Tyab has also reported from inside Syria following the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime, speaking with Syrians from Aleppo to Damascus as they emerged from over 14 years of civil war and decades of authoritarian rule. While there, he gained rare access to a large-scale Captagon amphetamine facility near Damascus and exposed how the Assad family and Hezbollah have profited from the multibillion-dollar illicit drug trade. He also reported on the forced disappearances of thousands of Syrians and their families' desperate search for any trace of them.

In 2023, covering natural disasters in the region, Tyab reported on the major earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria, getting rare access to the then-rebel-held Idlib province of Syria. He reported on the growing numbers of deaths and the political impediments to rescue and recovery efforts in a disaster that killed more than 55,000 people across Turkey and Syria.

In addition to his coverage of the Middle East, Tyab has filed extensive reports from Ukraine since Russia's 2022 invasion of the country, including reporting from the recently-liberated areas of Kherson where he and his team came under intense Russian shelling. In 2025, he was in Kyiv covering the third anniversary of the war when a high-stakes meeting at the White House between President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy devolved into a shouting match that reverberated globally and strained U.S.-Ukrainian ties.

During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Tyab reported on attempts by the U.K. firm AstraZeneca to develop a vaccine, on the global protests triggered by the police killing of George Floyd, and from Lebanon on the aftermath of the catastrophic Beirut port explosion and the political fallout that followed. In 2019 he travelled to Iran and was granted rare access to the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route through which nearly one-third of the world's oil supply passes and reported from Tehran on how U.S. sanctions affected children's access to life-saving cancer treatments.

In addition to reporting from the front lines, Tyab has filed regular features for CBS's "The Dish," profiling some of the world's most acclaimed chefs and restaurants. He has also contributed to Nickelodeon's "Nick News," the award-winning educational news magazine for kids and teens, filing reports from such places as Afghanistan and Ukraine that brought young audiences a first-hand understanding of conflict, displacement, and resilience.

Before joining CBS News, Tyab was a correspondent with Al Jazeera English, which he joined in 2010. There he covered the aftermath of the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, reported from Pakistan on the killing of Osama bin Laden-securing exclusive footage from inside the compound-and broke the story of a then-little-known teenage education activist, now Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, being shot by the Taliban. Based in Pakistan for much of his tenure, Tyab also reported extensively on neighboring Afghanistan, covering the war against the Taliban, U.S. military operations, and the rise of militant networks along the Afghan-Pakistan border. He also gained rare access to Pakistan's tribal areas targeted in the Obama-era CIA covert drone war.

In 2014, he moved to Jerusalem where he reported extensively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the 2014 Israel-Hamas war and national elections that secured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu another term in power. In late 2016 Tyab moved to Beirut, where he covered Lebanese politics, the Syrian civil war - including the fall of Aleppo - the region's growing refugee crisis and on the Saudi-led war in Yemen.

Before joining AJE, Tyab worked for BBC News. Based initially in London, he reported on the 2005 attacks on the city's transport network by British-born suicide bombers, the 2007-08 global financial crisis, and the 2010 general election that ended 13 years of Labour government and brought the Conservatives back to power. In 2009, Tyab was assigned to the BBC's Washington bureau to cover the first year of Barack Obama's presidency, where his reporting ranged from the confirmation of Justice Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, to the funeral of Senator Ted Kennedy, President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win, and the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

A native of Vancouver, Canada, Tyab started his reporting career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.