Anna Coren has joined CBS News as a foreign correspondent based in Hong Kong. Coren is an Emmy Award-winning international correspondent who joins the Network from CNN International. She will cover the Asia-Pacific region as the incoming administration takes the White House.

Coren comes to CBS News with more than 15 years of experience covering conflicts, humanitarian crises, natural disasters and global politics as a correspondent and anchor for CNN. She’s reported extensively from war zones in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine and covered the aftermath of tsunamis, flooding and super typhoons in Japan, the Philippines and Bangladesh. She was on assignment in Afghanistan in 2021 during the U.S. troop withdrawal as the country fell to the Taliban.

Throughout her career, Coren has interviewed world leaders, including President Bill Clinton, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Australian Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.

In addition to her experience in television news, Coren directed the independent documentary “The Noble Guardian” about Afghan women’s rights activist Mahbouba Seraj who refused to leave her country after it fell to the Taliban. The film was honored at the L.A. Shorts International Film Festival (2023) as Best Documentary.