Linnea Hoover

Freelance Journalist
covering conflict and environmental stories
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[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

I’m excited to say I’m now a contributor @NurPhoto! Enjoy my pics from Thailand’s Phi Ta Khon “Ghost Mask” festival, and my first submission!

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Four hospitals refused to admit her, and by the time she reached the fifth she had lost too much blood. Iraqi Kurdistan was not at the table in Pakistan, but it is absorbing the war anyway.
#Iraq
#IranWar‌
#Kurdistan
#Iran
#Ceasefire
#IraqiKurdistan
#MiddleEast
#Geopolitics
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[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

A masked Red Shirt navigates the crush of the massive crowd of people gathered outside the Klong Prem Central Prison on May 11, 2026, for the release of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Thaksin returned to Thailand in 2025 after more than 15 years in self-imposed exile and was immediately taken into custody to serve prison sentences related to corruption and abuse-of-power convictions.

Supports showed up on mass, hoping for a glimpse of the former Prime Minster, despite his conviction, self-exile and imprisonment — and loyalty continues to run deep. One support told me that he should never have been imprisoned in the first place.
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#photojournalism #thailand #shotoncanon #natgeoyourshot #nppa @canonasia @canonusa @natgeoyourshot @nppa @womenphotograph

[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

A Red Shirt supporter with his face painted white and the words “คนอีสาน” (“Isaan people”) written in red across his face waits outside the Klong Prem Central Prison on May 11, 2026, as crowds gathered for the release of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thaksin returned to Thailand in 2025 after more than 15 years in self-imposed exile and was immediately taken into custody to serve prison sentences related to corruption and abuse-of-power convictions.
Supports showed up on mass, hoping for a glimpse of the former Prime Minster, despite his conviction, self-exile and imprisonment — and loyalty continues to run deep. One support told me that he should never have been imprisoned in the first place.
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#shotoncanon #natgeoyourshot #nppa @CanonUSA @NatGeoPhotos @NPPA @womenphotograph

[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

Goodbye Iraqi Kurdistan. I hope to see you again soon…

[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

Yesterday, my colleague and I were at the Komala base where 19-year-old Ghazal Molan lost her life to an Iranian shahed suicide drone strike April 14, 2026 — during the ceasefire between Iran, Israel and America.

It should be noted that this was the family area of the base where civilians and children were housed. The camp has been evacuated since Milan’s death.

During our time at the site there were two separate reports of incoming drones. We do not know where they landed, or if they were shot down, but the threat is real and constant.
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#IranWar‌ #journalism #internationalnews #photojournalism #ghazalmolan @AaronParnas @underthedesknew

[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

We attended the funeral of Iranian Kurdish fighter Gazal Maulan(19), who lost her life in an Iranian drone strike April 15, 2026 — during the two week ceasefire.

We had to flee the site twice because there were reports of incoming Iranian drones attacking Komala sites. We were told that a cemetery, thought to be holding the funeral for Gaza’s Maulan by Iranian intelligence, was hit by a drone earlier in the day.

According to press release from the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, “Between 28 February and 15 April 2026, at least 112 missile and drone attacks have been carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against locations linked to Iranian Kurdish political parties in the Kurdistan Region.”
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#iranwar #photojournalism #shotoncanon #natgeoyourshot #nppa @canonusa @natgeoyourshot @nppa

[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

My first international environmental story is out for @mongabay! 🥳🥳🥳

https://t.co/wAI2p75Ab8

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Ghazal Mawlan, a member of the Komala Toilers of Kurdistan party, succumbed to her injuries from the drone attacks on the Kurdish region of Iraq that occurred Tuesday, April 14.

3 others were injured in that same drone strike on a Komala camp in the Sulaimani region of Iraq. No word yet on their status.
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#breakingnews #iraq #iranwar #internationalnews @aaronparnas @underthedesknews

[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

@ajhegarty9, quick question about that @60Mins interview on @Clavicular0…

Did you mean to break the internet by awakening the world’s feral women with the, “I’m not married,” line?

Because they do be feral, and I am living for it!

[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

Despite the ceasefire between the US, Israel and Iran, at least 4 drone attacks hit the Iraqi Kurdistan region in the last few hours.

Reports say drone attacks were aimed at the capital Erbil, Surdash, and Koya.

Reports of casualties remain
unconfirmed.

The origin of the Erbil attacks, reported by local media, appears at this time to come from Iran.

#breakingnews #iraq #IranWar‌2026 @AaronParnas #iranceasefire

[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

Traveling through the Kurdish region of Iraq for @NWS_Network, and had to stop and smell the — roses? *not sure what flower this is…*

Sometimes, we just need to take a beat to enjoy where we are, on the way to where we’re going.🌺
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#iraq #journalism

[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

Iraq isn’t what I was expecting.

To be very clear, I am in the Kurdish region of Iraq — not Iraq proper. I’d be interested in seeing how they differ besides the obvious Arab vs Kurdish influence.

I get to meet kind people who take me to tea or for a pistachio coffee, see colors that are so vibrant that they need to be seen in person to be believed, because pictures don’t do them justice — even with color correction.

So sometimes, I take a moment and a beat for me.
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@canonusa @natgeo

[MarnieMcKim @MarnieMcKim]

Congratulations @HooverLinnea on your 1st (of many) stories with @NWS_Network

Ground Report: Trade hubs turn into ghost towns as war shatters Thai-Cambodia border https://t.co/Oh7Iqu43gU

[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

My first article for @NWS_Network just dropped!

It’s also my first international conflict article, and while it’s not my first article to get commissioned since I’ve started freelancing, it’s the first one to get published.

So much has changed in four months. I’m so excited to see what the next four will bring, and the four after that.
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#journalism #thaicambodiaborder #conflictreporting #freelancejournalist

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[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

@MarnieMcKim @NWS_Network Thank you so much Marnie! It’s been such an exciting ride!!!

[NWS Network @NWS_Network]

Ground report: The Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco New Generation and the Albanian mafia all run operations out of one city. Cocaine leaves Ecuador hidden inside legitimate fruit shipments through the busiest port in the country, right here in Guayaquil. A kilo costs $2,000 where it's made in Colombia and sells for ten times that by the time it reaches Los Angeles. The violence that fills that gap killed 9,216 people in Ecuador last year, nearly half of them under 29, almost 600 of them children.

#NWS #Ecuador #Guayaquil #DrugWar #WarOnDrugs #NarcoState #SinaloaCartel #CJNG #LatinAmerica #GroundReport #Cocaine #latinoamérica

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Not tech, not concrete, just a grass from India protecting the Caribbean.

#NWS #Vetiver #India #Caribbean #ClimateResilience #NaturalFarming #Sustainability #GreenEngineering #CarbonCapture #Trinidad

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Ground report:

$9 a day was enough to keep him going. He sold trinkets to tourists crossing the Thailand-Cambodia border, collecting the jewellery and beads they pressed into his hands. He calls it fashion, "better late than never." Now the border is closed and he makes 30 baht on a good day, less than a dollar. He waits for a last train that never comes.

#ThailandCambodia #ThailandCambodiaClash #BorderClash #NWS #SaKaeo #PreahVihear #BorderConflict #ASEAN #CivilianImpact #SEAsiaTension #ScamCenters #CambodiaScams #News #Thailand #Cambodia

[Linnea Hoover @HooverLinnea]

I’m finding that conflict/war reporting is 99.9% problem solving…

At least I get amazing views while doing it!

@NWS_Network gave me the opportunity to be here, and my first conflict article will be coming out with them on Sunday. It’s about how the ongoing closure of the Thai/Cambodia border and the recent border fighting has affected the locals, specifically from the Thai side — I’m hoping to get the Cambodian perspective when I return.

Special thanks to @Adryel_T for taking this leap of faith with me!