Abigail Hauslohner

Washington, D.C.

National security reporter

Education: University of Michigan, BA in anthropology and Arabic studies; Columbia University, MA in journalism

Abigail Hauslohner is a Washington Post national security reporter focused on Congress. In her 12 years at the newspaper, she has been a roving national correspondent, writing on topics ranging from immigration to political extremism and Guantanamo Bay, and has served as the Post's Cairo bureau chief. From 2007 through 2014, she was a Middle East correspondent, reporting on wars, revolutions and politics from Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Gaza, Afghanistan and beyond, first for TIME Magazine and then for the Post. She has reported from more than a dozen countries.
Latest from Abigail Hauslohner

Amid Gaza talks, U.S. releases $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt

The Biden administration had previously withheld some annual funding from Egypt amid scrutiny of its human rights record.

September 11, 2024
President Joe Biden speaks with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi during a U.N. climate summit in 2022.

House GOP maneuvers to portray Democrats as weak on China

With its “China Week” blitz of legislation, the House GOP seeks to bolster the party’s foreign policy credentials ahead of November’s election.

September 11, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in 2022.

GOP probe of Afghanistan exit rips Biden, labors to implicate Harris

House Republicans’ Afghanistan war report was was criticized as “nakedly partisan” by Democrats who were unmoved by the investigation’s lack of new insights.

September 8, 2024
American personnel carry the remains of service members killed by a suicide bomber at Kabul's airport amid the U.S. withdrawal of Afghanistan in August 2021.

GOP probe of Biden’s Afghanistan exit expands as election nears

House Republicans’ investigation was forecast to end this month, just as the Afghanistan war’s deadly endgame emerged as Trump’s new line of attack on Harris.

September 7, 2024
In this Aug. 30, 2021, photo released by the U.S. Air Force, soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division prepare to board a C-17 transport that is about to depart from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.

In Gaza war, Trump allies see opening to lure away Arab, Muslim voters

Most Arab and Muslim voters are skeptical of Donald Trump, but they are enraged by what it sees as the Biden-Harris team’s failure to rein in Israel’s brutal war in Gaza.

September 5, 2024
Massad Boulos calls himself Donald Trump’s “envoy” to Arab and Muslim American communities. His son Michael Boulos is married to Trump's daughter Tiffany.

Netanyahu’s U.S. visit revealed ‘no workable plan’ for peace, critics say

A “day after” plan in Gaza is a critical component of President Biden’s vision for peace. Lawmakers say that, for all the effort, it remains a pipe dream.

July 27, 2024
President Biden greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Thursday.

Netanyahu dismisses critics, scolds protesters in defiant speech to Congress

Evoking Israel’s sworn enemy Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu told Congress his nation’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza is part of a broader fight against “barbarism.”

July 24, 2024

Netanyahu to address Congress, showcasing U.S. partisan divide

The embattled Israeli prime minister is embraced by Republicans while many Democrats plan to skip the speech.

July 23, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, on March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik/File)

Afghanistan War Commission opens inquiry of America’s longest conflict

The Afghanistan War Commission will study the conflict’s myriad failures with a mandate to recommend how the U.S. can avoid a repeat performance.

July 19, 2024
A military transport plane takes off from Kabul's airport in August 2021 while Afghans watch and wonder if they'll make it onto one of the evacuation flights.

Trump, Biden photos found on rally shooter’s phone, but motive unclear

Thomas Matthew Crooks had searched online for information about former president Donald Trump and President Biden, and had photos of both men saved on his phone.

July 18, 2024
Secret Service agents remove former president Donald Trump from the stage Saturday after an assassination attempt on him during his rally in Butler, Pa.