EXCLUSIVE: 'I'll come back, I always come back.' The emotional exchange Lara Logan had with her 5-year-old daughter as she begged to go to war with her mom after reporter's life-changing attack

Lara Logan's five-year-old daughter begged to go with her on her first war assignment since the 44-year-old journalist was sexually assaulted in Egypt in 2011, Daily Mail Online can reveal.

The CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent said that she had a gut-wrenching conversation with Lola before her recent trip to Iraq.

Logan told her daughter that she could not come along as there were 'bad guys' in the city of Fallujah and she might get hurt, she revealed today, speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations.

But the young child persisted and and demanded to know why her mother was going to such a dangerous place if she couldn't.

Lara Logan reveals her five-year-old daughter begged to go with her on her first war assignment since she was sexually assaulted in Egypt in 2011

'And I'm screaming, thinking if I scream, if they know, they're gonna stop, you know. Someone's gonna stop them,' Logan spoke of her attack in an interview with 60 Minutes

Logan was assaulted in Egypt on February 11, 2011, while covering the celebrations in Tahrir Square the night that former dictator Hosni Mubarak's government fell in Cairo.

In an interview with CBS that May - she described how between 200 and 300 men repeatedly raped her with their hands, tore at her hair and ripped her clothes off her body.

The ordeal lasted 25 minutes before she was rescued by Egyptian soldiers.

Speaking today at the nonprofit think tank, Logan, a mother-of-two, said that her recovery was an 'ongoing struggle'.

Fast forward to 2015 - she was tasked with her first war assignment since Egypt. She was headed to Fallujah, something that she had to prepare her family for.

Logan said: 'My daughter asked if she could come with me. She's five.

'She said: 'Mommy, can I come with you?' I had to say: 'Sweetheart, no'. 

'She said: 'But I want to come with you'.

'(I said) It's not safe for little kids, there's some bad guys and it's not safe for children to go'.

'She said: 'Then why are you going?'

Logan and husband Joseph Burkett arrive for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in 2011

'She said: 'If you don't come back that means the bad guys got you'. And I said: 'I'll come back, I always come back,' Lara reveals of the conversation she had with her 5-year-old before going back to cover war

'I said: 'There's good guys even when there's bad guys and I'm going to be with the good guys.'

'She said: 'If you don't come back that means the bad guys got you'. And I said: 'I'll come back, I always come back'.

Logan said that covering the outbreak of Ebola in Liberia earlier this year was just as tough.

'I have to say, not just going to war, but you try looking at your five and six-year-old when you're sterilizing every single piece of clothing you're taking with you and putting them in separate bags and putting them in waterproof containers before'.

Logan said that she felt that reporting was 'part of my DNA' and that she even wanted to cover the conflict in Syria but could not because she was still recovering from her assault.

She admitted that 'people looked at me like I was insane, the word Syria even coming out of my mouth' but she felt 'constrained' being unable to go.

She said: 'I have never done it for the adrenaline or the thrills. I find it insulting when people say that because you don't leave your five and six year old children at home not knowing if you're coming back so that you can go and do something interesting. 

'You do it because you passionately believe that somebody has to do it.'

Logan, who is originally from South Africa, has won an Emmy award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for her reports including dispatches from Iraq and Afghanistan.

On the day she was attacked she had been filming in a crowd gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo for 60 Minutes when her camera battery died.

Within seconds she felt hands grabbing her breasts, grabbing her crotch and pulling her away.

She said in an interview on 60 Minutes: 'And I'm screaming, thinking if I scream, if they know, they're gonna stop, you know. Someone's gonna stop them. Or they're gonna stop themselves.

'Because this is wrong. And it was the opposite. Because the more I screamed, it turned them into a frenzy.

'Someone in the crowd shouted that she was an Israeli, a Jew. Neither is true. But, to the mob, it was a match to gasoline. The savage assault turned into a murderous fury.'

Logan described in horrific detail how the crowd 'literally just tore my pants to shreds' and took pictures of her with their mobile phones when she was naked.

'I was no doubt in my mind that I was in the process of dying. I thought, not only am I gonna die here, but it's gonna be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever,' Logan told of her assault

She felt men trying to tear the hair from her scalp and could feel the hands of dozens of men repeatedly raping her again and again.

She said: 'I was no doubt in my mind that I was in the process of dying. I thought, not only am I gonna die here, but it's gonna be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.'

Logan was eventually dumped by a group of women who shielded her until some Egyptian soldiers rescued her.

Logan's recovery has not been easy and she has had to go back to hospital at least four times since the assault because of internal bleeding.

She has also suffered PTSD and said that she has nightmares that cause her to relive the experience.

Logan has also suffered a serious professional setback as she was suspended from CBS News last year over a report on the attacks on the US embassy in Benghazi in 2012 that left four Americans dead including ambassador Chris Stevens.

The story relied on a now-discredited interview with security contractor Dylan Davies who, it later emerged, had contradicted himself and said he was not even there at the time.

Logan currently lives in Washington with her husband Joseph Burkett, a government defense contractor, and her two children - Joseph and Lola.