Yaroslav Trofimov is an award-winning author and journalist who serves as Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent at The Wall Street Journal . Previously he wrote a weekly column on the Greater Middle East , Middle East Crossroads , in The Wall Street Journal . He has been a foreign correspondent for '' The Wall Street Journal '' since 1999 , covering the Middle East , Africa , and Asia . Prior to 2015 he was The Wall Street Journal 's bureau chief in Afghanistan and Pakistan . He shared in the Overseas Press Club award for foreign reporting on India , won the SAJA Daniel Pearl award for the outstanding story on South Asia in 2007 and shared the SAJA award for coverage of the Mumbai bombing in 2008 , among other honors
Mumbai bombing in 2008
2008 Mumbai attacks
Yaroslav Trofimov