Atwar Bahjat (Arabic: أطوار بهجت‎‎; 7 June 1976 – 22 February 2006) was an Iraqi journalist. Initially a reporter for Iraq's state-controlled television under Saddam Hussein, Bahjat became a reporter for al-Jazeera and later a popular television correspondent for al-Arabiya following the US invasion of Iraq. On 22 February 2006, Bahjat was abducted, raped, and murdered while covering a story in Samarra.