Hollie McKay is a war correspondent, investigative journalist and national security analyst with two decades of frontline reporting across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America. Her work spans conflict zones, terrorism, geopolitical intelligence, and human rights in some of the most underreported conflicts and territories. McKay is the author of Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield, Afghanistan: The End of the U.S. Footprint and the Rise of the Taliban Rule and The Dictator’s Wife.