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Biography

François d'Alançon began his career in journalism in 1981 with La Correspondance Economique (Société Générale de Presse), after studying law at the University of Clermont-Ferrand and political science at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.


In 1983, he joined La Croix as an editor specializing in the Middle East and Asia, where he covered the war in Lebanon, the Iraq-Iran war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Head of the Foreign Service (1990-1995), then a senior reporter with the World Service, he covered the end of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chechnya, NATO's intervention in Kosovo, the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the US intervention in Afghanistan, the conflict in Syria and the war in Ukraine.

 

A Fulbright Scholar, he is a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government (Harvard, MPA 1988).

 

An auditor of the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN), he is a former deputy editor of Défense magazine.

Kaboul, rencontre avec Mollah Abdul Zaeef, ancien ambassadeur du gouvernement afghan taliban au Pakistan et ancien prisonnier à Guantanamo. 9 novembre 2010.

Kabul, meeting with Mullah Abdul Zaeef, former ambassador of the Afghan Taliban government in Pakistan and former prisoner at Guantanamo. November 9, 2010.

Kerbala, Irak. 27 avril 2015.

Kerbala, Iraq. 27 April 2015.

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