John Yang

— -- John Yang is ABC News' Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem.

He began his current assignment in November 2002. Since then he has covered every major development in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In June 2003, he reported alongside Peter Jennings at the landmark summit meeting between President Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas in Aqaba, Jordan.

On previous assignments in the region, Yang spent several weeks reporting on the Israeli military operation in the Jenin Refugee Camp, and on the final days of the standoff at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

In 2003, he also reported from Iraq, traveling throughout the country in the period after the war. Yang's other reporting trips the region have included Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

He joined ABC News as a Washington-based correspondent in 1999, covering politics and general news stories for ABC News' network news programs and ABCNEWS.com.

In 2000 he covered the campaign of then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush during the Republican primaries. That fall, he covered then-Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign through Election Day and the Florida recount.

In the days following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, Yang reported from the Pentagon and was part of the ABC News team honored with both a George Foster Peabody Award and an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award.

Prior to joining ABC News, Yang was a reporter and editor at The Washington Post for nearly ten years. As a reporter, he covered Congress and the White House, and as an editor directed coverage of economic policy in the paper's business section and oversaw political features in the Post's Style section.

Throughout his print career, he covered Congress and national politics. He previously worked for The Boston Globe, Time magazine and The Wall Street Journal.

Born in Chillicothe, Ohio, Yang is a 1980 cum laude graduate of Wesleyan University.