I’m very happy to announce that Hollie McKay, an award-winning investigative journalist, foreign affairs expert, and war crimes investigator, has joined the RedState team.
Hollie has worked at Fox News Digital for more than 14 years, focusing on war, terrorism and crimes against humanity. She will continue to report on these topics in RedState and will provide comments. Her first work, “How much Afghanistan does the Taliban really control?“Just published on our front page.
If you are not familiar with Hollie’s work, she has worked on the front lines of several major theaters, reporting on humanitarian and diplomatic crises in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Russia, Africa, and Latin America. And other regions. She conducted exclusive and detailed interviews with numerous arrested terrorists, as well as senior officials from the government, military, and intelligence agencies, and leaders from various parties.
She also spent a lot of time dealing with American and foreign military forces, conducting extensive interviews with survivors of torture, sexual slavery, and forced child jihad training, refugees, and internally displaced persons to convey the impact of such disasters and war crimes on local residents. Complexity. She shared their stories in the book,”Weeping just to live-a memo from inside the ISIS battlefield,”this is Reviewed by RedState contributors (And Holly’s friend) Dennis San Diego:
[I]This is what the human McKay encountered when he reported on the war between notebooks. A small episode of the cost of conflict to the displaced, they bravely tried their best to endure…There are real stories of people, from the advancing tribe of Da’esh in the first few days, to the suffering of genocide and sexual slavery, To fight to bring a fragmented alliance that is almost intolerable to each other to defeat the 21st century version of the dark age.
You will meet people who have been betrayed by their neighbors, who have lost everything, including most of their relatives, but still persevered in some way. You will fall in love with them, even those who only live in memory, because Holly wrote their stories in her notebook before they died. You will see the price paid by the soldiers and their souls on both sides. You will meet local officials, field commanders, and clergy far away from the capital, who do their best to bring order to the hell they did not choose.
She continued to tell the stories of survivors on her Twitter account.
Today we are going to talk to Anwar about who he wants to be when he grows up ✌️🏻 When the bomb fell on his home in Syria, the beautiful eight-year-old boy was burned down. His little sister was killed immediately. But fortunately, the United States has given Anwar with open arms. @helpbcrf @shrinershosp pic.twitter.com/aLyWlLBS8O
— Holly McKay (@holliesmckay) March 13, 2021
Hollie’s column appeared in the Wall Street Journal, and her work has been cited in countless mainstream publications and academic journals. In addition, she has won many foreign media and humanitarian awards.
When she is not on a foreign battlefield, Holly sometimes hangs out in Los Angeles, where she likes to ride her Harley motorcycle and spend time at the shooting range.
Now take a break from the usual programming… #weekend #Harley girl pic.twitter.com/pBLQDI7JAh
— Holly McKay (@holliesmckay) March 27, 2021
Welcome to join the team, Holly!
