Wood reported from Croatia , Bosnia , and Macedonia , Chechnya , Algeria , Libya , Saudi Arabia , and Sudan , including Darfur . In August 2011 , he was in Libya , covering the advance of the protestors ’ troops against Gaddafi . He was in Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and in Fallujah during the 2004 battle for the city . In 2004 he covered the devastating suicide bombings on pilgrims in Karbala . He was previously the BBC ’s Belgrade reporter , filing stories from behind Serbian lines while travelling with Kosovar guerrillas during the NATO bombing campaign in June 1999 . In February 2012 , he covered the fighting in the Syrian Civil War , reporting from the outskirts of the city of Homs with rebel fighters
suicide bombings on pilgrims
2004 Karbala and Najaf bombings
Paul Wood (journalist)