CNN hires foreign correspondent Clarissa Ward from CBS News

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Ward is the one of a handful of network correspondents who have reported from Syria in recent years
In 2011 she sneaked into the country posing as a tourist
She has earned numerous honors for her work from inside the civil war in Syria, as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Ward joined CBS News in 2011 and will be based in London for CNN
She speaks six languages including French, Italian, Arabic, Russian and Spanish

Published: 08:11 EST, 21 September 2015 | Updated: 10:41 EST, 21 September 2015

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Award-winning foreign correspondent Clarissa Ward is joining CNN, the network announced Monday.

Her move concludes a four-year stint at CBS News, where she reported for all of that network's news programs, including '60 Minutes' and the 'CBS Evening News,' and played a notable role in its hard-news mission.

At CNN, she will be senior international correspondent, based in London, reporting for all of CNN's platforms, the network said.

Taking off: Clarissa Ward has only been at CBS News for four years but she is switching networks to CNN

Moving-on: Ward has jumped from CBS News to CNN, where she will serve as a senior international correspondent

Intrepid: CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward is joining CNN. She has reported from some of the most dangerous countries in the world including Yemen, pictured here, and Syria

All-rounder: Since joining CBS from ABC in 2011, Ward has reported for 60 Minutes and the CBS Evening News with extensive experience overseas–reporting from Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine

'No other organization has the same scope and depth and recognition across the world,' Ward said. 'And no other organization devotes the same amount of resources and air time to the most important international stories of our time. CNN is, simply put, the most important name in news,' she said.

'Clarissa Ward is an exceptional correspondent, a reporter and storyteller who has covered the world's toughest assignments,' said CNN boss Jeff Zucker.

. 'She is unique in her field. I am absolutely thrilled that she will join our exceptional team to bring home the most important stories of our time.'

Ward has covered major international events for nearly a decade, most recently from Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan. She has also reported extensively on the revolution in Ukraine, the Russian incursion into Georgia, and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Assetts: For Ward, being a woman has actually turned out to be advantageous to her reporting rather than holding her back as she has been to places that men are often not allowed to access

Daring: At times, Ward was the only foreign correspondent reporting from places like Syria and Yemen

Face-to-face: Ward speaks six languages which enables her to travel without using translators and 'connect' with the people she interviews on a much more personal level

Her reporting of Syria's civil war earned her Peabody, DuPont and Edward R. Murrow awards. She has also won two Emmys.

Ward joined CBS News in 2011. She was one of the first journalists to report from inside Syria in 2011 and has been to Syria 11 times since that country's civil war began.

During her first trip in 2011, Ward took viewers deep inside the lives of ordinary Syrians in rebel-held areas.

Ward has receieved numerous awards including Emmy's and Peabody's

She went undercover, posed as a tourist, and spent time with opposition activists and covered the mass demonstrations on her own.

Ward was also blindfolded by rebel leaders in the middle of the night and traveled to a safe house outside Damascus where she interviewed members of the Free Syrian Army.

During subsequent trips to Syria, Ward was embedded with rebel leaders in Idlib and reported throughout the country. In her first '60 Minutes' report in 2012, Ward and her team braved sniper-fire and aerial bombardments in the ancient city of Aleppo to deliver one of the first reports to examine the growth of Islamic extremism within the opposition.

In October 2014, Ward returned to Syria undercover to interview two Western jihadis - a young American man and a former Dutch soldier - about their paths to radicalism. She was the first journalist to sit down with an American fighter inside Syria.

Ward also took viewers inside the heart of the revolution in Ukraine in March 2014 for a '60 Minutes' report.

While reporting in Ukraine, Ward and her crew were blindfolded and detained for several hours by pro-Russian militants as they tried to approach the city of Slavyansk..

Last fall she traveled undercover to Syria to interview two Westerners fighting against the United States, a risk taken against the backdrop of kidnappings and beheadings by Islamic state fighters.

Before joining CBS News in 2011, Ward was an ABC News correspondent based in Beijing and Moscow and a correspondent for Fox News, where she reported from Beirut and Baghdad.

She graduated from Yale University and speaks six languages including French, Italian, Arabic, Russian and Spanish.