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Tara Copp

Tara Copp

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Pentagon Correspondent, Associated Press

Washington

Biography

Tara Copp is a Pentagon correspondent for Stars and Stripes. She previously covered DOD for the Washington Examiner, Jane’s Defense Weekly, the Austin American-Statesman and Scripps Howard News Service. She has reported throughout the Middle East, Europe and Asia. She was a senior defense analyst for seven years at the GAO and worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar in that capacity. Prior to that, she was one of the initial embedded reporters in Iraq in 2003. Tara is a Plan II graduate of the University of Texas-Austin, where she was editor of The Daily Texan. She earned her master’s degree from Georgetown University in Security Studies. Twitter @TaraCopp copp.tara@stripes.com

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Total articles 135356

  • US to withdraw 600 troops from Syria, leaving fewer than 1,000 to help counter IS militants

    By Tara Copp Verified

    Apr. 18, 2025

  • US to withdraw 600 troops from Syria, leaving fewer than 1,000 to help counter IS militants

    By Tara Copp Verified

    Apr. 18, 2025

  • Afghanistan Medal of Honor recipient reenlists in Marine Corps reserves after 15 years

    By Tara Copp Verified, Lolita Baldor Verified

    Apr. 18, 2025

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Associated Press

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