Dylan Collins is the chief video journalist in Beirut for the French news agency AFP and the video coverage coordinator for Lebanon and Syria. A fluent Arabic speaker, Mr. Collins has been based in the Middle East for nearly 15 years and has reported on conflicts in the region and beyond, including the Gaza Strip, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as the Beirut blast and economic collapse in Lebanon. He is currently covering the Israel-Hezbollah war. Mr. Collins, an American, arrived in Ukraine on the second day of the Russian invasion in February 2022 and covered the ensuing war for the next two months. On July 24, 2023, on his third reporting trip covering the Ukraine war, Mr. Collins was seriously wounded in a Russian drone attack on the outskirts of the flashpoint town of Bakhmut. After recovering from his injuries, Mr. Collins returned to Lebanon and covered the escalation between Israel and Hezbollah along the southern border following the October 7 Hamas attacks. On October 13, 2023, Mr. Collins was among a group of seven journalists targeted twice by Israeli forces. Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was killed instantly in the attack. AFP photographer Christina Assi was severely wounded, leading to the amputation of her right leg. Mr. Collins and four other journalists sustained shrapnel wounds. Investigations by AFP, Reuters, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, UNIFIL and Reporters Without Borders said Israeli forces fired the two strikes.