Missiles, Blackouts and Mixed Signals: How TV Networks Are Covering Trump’s Iran War 

Clarissa Ward’s five-year-old son wonders when she’ll come home.  

“I have been doing this long enough, and I’m humble enough to be able to say that I really just don’t know,” Ward, CNN’s chief international correspondent, told TheWrap from Ebril, Iraq, where she’s stationed with four network colleagues. “I just try to take it one day at a time.”

Ward is among a host of journalists dispatched to the Middle East since the United States and Israel launched a wave of attacks against...