Larry Kaplow joined Newsweek's Baghdad bureau in May, 2007 and has covered the war in Iraq since it began.

Before joining Newsweek, Kaplow covered the Middle East for Cox Newspapers. He first started going to Iraq in 1998 and wrote before the war about the country's history of tribalism and resistance to central authority. He was among the few American reporters who stayed in Baghdad during the U.S. invasion in 2003 and one of the first Americans to interview insurgents. He was on a reporting team that won the Military Reporters and Editors Joseph L. Galloway Award for Distinguished Journalism for stories about the military system for compensating injured Iraqis. He was a major contributor the following year on another series that chronicled the lax prosecution of soldiers accused of wrongdoing. He was also recognized for columns about daily life in Baghdad and has frequently written about the demands and challenges facing U.S. soldiers. He contributed extensively to Newsweek's cover story about the U.S. Army's adaptation to counterinsurgency tactics.

Kaplow has been a foreign correspondent since 1997, writing from countries throughout the Middle East. In addition, he covered the fall of the Talaban in Afghanistan and the entry of NATO forces into Kosovo.

Prior to going overseas, Kaplow worked in Florida for The Bradenton Herald and The Palm Beach Post. He is a graduate of Duke University and spent two-and-a-half years in the Peace Corps in Guatemala.