Ken Guest

Number of articles written: 1 article

Ken Guest

Number of articles written: 1 article

Ken Guest is a former Royal Marine Commando trained for mountain and arctic warfare,who left the forces to work as a freelance journalist specializing in reporting on guerrilla warfare. He covered the Soviet-AfghanWar from 1980 to 1989, making over thirty trips with the mujahideen, and has continued to cover Afghanistan regularly to the present day, having recently spent three years living and working there. As a journalist he is a committee member of the Rory Peck Trust, a founder member of the Frontline Club and winner of a Royal Television Society Award for best investigative documentary (about Afghanistan).

Published articles

article IRRC No. 880

Dynamic interplay between religion and armed conflict in Afghanistan author: Ken Guest

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