Isobel Yeung - International Correspondent
Isobel Yeung
International Correspondent
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• Video 8:43Video Why does the UK think these seniors are terrorists? 8:43Sep 8, 2025How far is too far to oppose the war in Gaza? The UK government decided that the direct-action group Palestine Action crossed the line and designated them as a terrorist group. It means not only their members face jailtime, but even anyone who holds a sign in support of them. Isobel Yeung reports. -
• Video 4:15Video US warns against it, but influencers are flocking here 4:15Aug 18, 2025Four years after the Taliban took power, influencers are traveling to Afghanistan in droves. CNN’s Isobel Yeung met up in Kabul with Keith Siegel, who’s driving his car around the world. -
• Video 5:47Video Left behind: Trump’s travel ban leaves former allies stranded 5:47Aug 14, 2025Hundreds of thousands of Afghans worked with the US and its allies during the 20-year war there. When the Taliban took over in August 2021, many of them were left behind. Years later, some were still trying to get to the US. But when Donald Trump returned to the White House earlier this year, he cancelled refugee programs dismantled the office dedicated to helping Afghans relocate, and barred them from entering the US altogether. Isobel Yeung reports from Afghanistan. -
‘They do not teach us what we need’: Inside the expansion of religious schools for girls across AfghanistanAug 4, 2025Afghanistan remains the only country in the world that prohibits girls and women from getting general education at secondary and higher levels. -
• Video 15:31Video The Trump Administration says no one has died due to aid cuts. We went to the Taliban’s Afghanistan to investigate 15:31Jul 23, 2025CNN’s Isobel Yeung went to Afghanistan to see first-hand the impacts of USAID funding cuts. -
• For Subscribers For SubscribersFor Subscribers The Trump administration claims no one has died due to US aid cuts. Our trip to Afghanistan suggests otherwiseJul 22, 2025A woman’s wail reverberates through the malnutrition ward and down the stuffy hallways of a hospital in eastern Afghanistan: The unfiltered pain of a mother watching her 1-year-old son die. -
• For Subscribers For SubscribersFor Subscribers Meeting with a member of one of the most powerful criminal networks in the worldMay 2, 2025The man sitting in front of us belongs to the Sinaloa Cartel — one of the most powerful and feared criminal networks in the world — and one the US government recently designated a foreign terrorist organization.
About
Isobel Yeung is a multi-award-winning International Correspondent for CNN, based in the network’s London bureau.
Known for her long-form investigations and ground-breaking reports from conflict zones all over the world, she reports on major stories for CNN’s television and digital platforms.
Prior to CNN, Yeung worked as a senior correspondent and producer at VICE News, creating content that appeared across HBO, Hulu and Showtime. In her nearly 10 years there, she reported on a wide range of geopolitical, social, cultural and human rights stories from every corner of the globe including Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Libya, the Philippines, Russia, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen.
In the last year, Yeung gained access to Iran to cover the women-led uprising a year after Mahsa Amini’s death; went undercover in Mexico to infiltrate a network of Chinese gangsters laundering drug proceeds for the cartels; and traveled to a Russian summer camp where Ukrainian children had been illegally sent. She has also reported extensively from the occupied West Bank as part of an investigation for the BBC into the conduct of Israel’s security forces.
She has won multiple journalism awards for her work, including 10 Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, a Royal Television Society Television Journalism Award, multiple Overseas Press Club Awards, and the Foreign Press Association’s Journalist of the Year Award.