"the most famous cases was the death of the ""New York Times""´ correspondent, the American Anthony Shadid, who died in February 2012 in Damascus. Another significant death was the British Marie Colvin, correspondent for ""The Sunday Times"", who died reporting the siege of Homs together with the French photographer Rémi Ochlik. Francesca Borri has been reporting from Syria since 2012 and has published two books on the dynamics of the war within the country and within refugee communities as a result. Her opinions on the culture that is perceived by some as a cause of war in these times of"
"of the Arabic-language al-Alam TV network, was wounded in a leg. Nasser is the 46th journalist killed during the Syrian Civil War. Maya Nasser Maya Nasser (30 July 1979 – 26 September 2012) was a Syrian journalist and reporter who worked for Press TV, an Iranian English-language broadcasting service. Nasser reported from Syria during the Syrian Civil War. His reports from Aleppo are the most notable. Nasser also reported from the United States, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Bahrain. On 26 September 2012, Nasser was covering the large explosions at the Syrian army's headquarters in Umayyad Square when he was killed"
"Maya Nasser Maya Nasser (30 July 1979 – 26 September 2012) was a Syrian journalist and reporter who worked for Press TV, an Iranian English-language broadcasting service. Nasser reported from Syria during the Syrian Civil War. His reports from Aleppo are the most notable. Nasser also reported from the United States, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Bahrain. On 26 September 2012, Nasser was covering the large explosions at the Syrian army's headquarters in Umayyad Square when he was killed by a rebel sniper. Nasser was shot through the neck and was killed. Hussein Murtada, Press TV's Damascus bureau chief and head"
"Gilles Jacquier Gilles Jacquier (25 October 1968 – 11 January 2012) was a French photojournalist and reporter for France Télévisions. Jacquier worked as a special correspondent for ""Envoyé spécial"", one of France's best known documentary programs which airs on France 2. He had a successful career, has covered major international military conflicts and won many awards during his life. He was killed on 11 January 2012 while covering the ongoing Syrian Civil War in Homs, Syria. Jacquier was the first Western journalist killed in Syria since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War. Jacquier was born in Évian-les-Bains and started"
"Marie Colvin who was killed by an explosion during the battle of Homs, but at least one, French journalist Gilles Jacquier, was killed by rebel mortar fire. Except for those hand-picked by the government, journalists have been banned from reporting in Syria. Those who have entered the country regardless have been targeted. Within a month of the protests taking off, at least seven local and international journalists were detained, and at least one of them was beaten. 'Citizen journalist' Mohammed Hairiri was arrested in April 2012, tortured in prison, and sentenced to death in May 2012 for giving an interview"
"2012 murder on the Syrian-Turkish border The 2012 murder on the Syrian-Turkish border is about two European-Algerian freelance journalists, Naseem Intriri and Walid Bledi, who were making a documentary about refugees and the Syrian civil war when they were killed during an attack on the Syrian border town of Darkush, Idlib Governorate, near the Turkish border. The Syrian government called them ""infiltrators."" Naseem Intriri, sometimes transliterated as Nasim Entriri, was an Algerian/French citizen. Walid Bledi was an Algerian/British citizen. From inside Syria, a citizen journalist Musaab al Arabi reported two independent journalists were killed while attempting to reach the town"
"unacceptable price being paid by journalists trying to carry out their professional duties in Syria. I call on the Syrian authorities to launch an inquiry into these crimes and bring their perpetrators to trial. I am deeply concerned by the number of journalists killed in the country since the start of the conflict. Media professionals must be able to carry out their work without fearing for their lives. Freedom of expression is a basic human right and the corner stone of democracy."" 2012 murder on the Syrian-Turkish border The 2012 murder on the Syrian-Turkish border is about two European-Algerian freelance"
"among a long list of Syrian citizen journalist murdered. His brave work along that of other citizen journalists, has allowed the world to witness the Syrian crisis between president Bashar al-Assad's regime and the rebels. He was the second Syrian journalist killed. The first was Ferzat Jarban, who was also killed in Homs around November 20, 2011. Since al-Sayed and Jarban, it has been reported that 61 more citizen journalists have lost their lives while trying to document the uprising. Included in those deaths, was Rami al-Sayed, who was Basil al-Sayed's cousin, and h was killed only two months after"
"al-Majdalawi, killed on 12 August 2012 in an operation conducted in Damascus. On 27 June 2012, a group of Syrian rebels attacked a pro-government TV station in the town of Drousha, just south of the capital Damascus. The station's studios were destroyed with explosives. Seven people were killed in the attack on Al-Ikhbariya TV, including four guards and three journalists. Al-Nusra claimed responsibility for the attack and published photos of 11 station employees they kidnapped following the raid. The murder in July 2012 of journalist Mohammed al-Saeed, a well-known government TV news presenter, was claimed by Nusra in a video"
"appeared on the sites of loose-knit citizen news organisations. The Committee to Protect Journalists says it is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death. On 11 January, A France 2 journalist Gilles Jacquier, who covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Algeria among others, was among several people killed in Syria's central city of Homs, becoming the first Western reporter to have died in the unrest in the country. A witness in Homs, who asked not to be named, said the casualties were caused by rocket-propelled grenades fired during a pro-Assad rally, while according to a journalist who was quoted by"
"violent bombardment for two weeks. The BBC reported shells were hitting the Homs neighborhoods of Baba Amr, Inshaat, Bayada and Khaldiya, according to opposition and human rights activists. On the morning of 21 February 2012, news sources were reporting a new wave of heavy bombardment had begun, killing at least 30 people. An opposition member who was broadcasting live footage of the quarter of Bab Amr on the website ""Bambuser"" was killed in the fighting. American journalist Marie Colvin, working for ""The Sunday Times"" of London, was killed in Homs on 22 February during an artillery attack, along with French"
"Basil al-Sayed Basil al-Sayed (ca. 1987 – 27 December 2011) of Homs, was a Syrian citizen journalist and videographer working in Homs, Syria during the Syrian civil war and was well known by the news media for his reporting under dangerous conditions and at a time when international media were banned. He was called by the people of Homs, ""The revolution's journalist."" According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, he was the second journalist to be killed during the Syrian uprising. Ferzat Jarban, the first journalist to be killed, was a freelance television camera operator. Basil al-Sayed was the first"
"province of Deir Ezzor on October 10, 2012. President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview on April 17, 2013, to Syrian News Channel. On 27 May 2013, ""Yara Abbas"", a prominent female Syrian war reporter for the Syrian News Channel, was killed by rebels near the military air base of al-Dabaa in the central province of Homs. The cameraman ""Osama Dayoub"" and driver ""Badr Awad"" were injurd in the attack. A large studio in Drousha and a smaller studio, which can be hooked up to the headquarters for down-the-line interviews, is located in Gomarek Square to accommodate live guests. Syrian News"
"for sending an ""inexperienced teenager"" into a war zone. A photograph of Barakat's bloodstained camera was distributed by the Aleppo Media Center. Molhem Barakat Molhem Barakat (8 March 1995 in Aleppo – 20 December 2013 in Aleppo) was a Syrian child photojournalist who covered the Syrian Civil War for Reuters. He was killed in 2013 during the Battle of Aleppo. Barakat began working as a photojournalist for the Reuters news agency in May 2013. His age in December of that year is quoted as 17 or 18, possibly making him a minor at the time. Barakat was killed on 20"
"call on the government of Syria to stop all forms of violence against journalists immediately. I also appeal to the authorities to put an end to flagrant repression against those who report on current events in the country."" Ferzat Jarban Ferzat Jaban (died November 19 or 20, 2011) was the first Syrian journalist reported to be killed while covering the Syrian civil war, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Jarban was a Syrian freelance cameraman who was found dead one day after being arrested for reporting on an anti-government protest and the clashes between protesters and security forces in"
"Molhem Barakat Molhem Barakat (8 March 1995 in Aleppo – 20 December 2013 in Aleppo) was a Syrian child photojournalist who covered the Syrian Civil War for Reuters. He was killed in 2013 during the Battle of Aleppo. Barakat began working as a photojournalist for the Reuters news agency in May 2013. His age in December of that year is quoted as 17 or 18, possibly making him a minor at the time. Barakat was killed on 20 December 2013 during the battle to control the al-Kindi Hospital in Aleppo, alongside his brother, a Syrian rebel. Reuters was widely criticized"
"Syria with a visa to cover the Syrian Civil War against Bashar al-Assad. Jacquier and cameraman, Christophe Kenck, were allowed to travel to the city of Homs, a stronghold of the opposition revolt, with the permission of the Syrian government. On 11 January 2012, Jacquier was interviewing local Syrian businesspeople and traveling to a Homs hospital, when a pro-government demonstration organized nearby. It has been claimed that Jacquier was killed in a rocket attack while reporting. and that seven other people were also killed in the attack. His wife claims that he was killed by the government, namely in a"
"November 2012 by Shabiha militia. ISIL also threatened to execute Steven Sotloff, who was kidnapped at the Syrian-Turkish border in August 2013. There were reports ISIS captured a Japanese national, two Italian nationals, and a Danish national as well. Sotloff was later executed in September 2014. At least 70 journalists have been killed covering the Syrian war, and more than 80 kidnapped, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. On 22 August 2014, the al-Nusra Front released a video of captured Lebanese soldiers and demanded Hezbollah withdraw from Syria under threat of their execution. The successive governments of Hafez and"
"who was appointed to the post in January 2012. She is the first female editor-in-chief in the country. ""Tishreen"" also has an English news portal, ""Syria Millennium"", which is accessed through its website. Mohammad Kheir Al Wadi, then editor-in-chief, wrote in January 2000 ""Zionism created the Holocaust myth to blackmail and terrorize the world's intellectuals and politicians."" The website of ""Tishreen"" was hacked by unknown groups in late April 2011. In December 2012, Naji Assaad, a journalist for the daily, was assassinated in Damascus allegedly by opposition forces who have been fighting against the Assad government in the country since"
"to document the eminent danger which the residents of Homs find themselves in. Shehadeh also trained the producer Ahmad Al-Assam (also known as Ahmad Abu Ibrahim) who filmed many videos and produced many news reports on Syria. On May 28, 2012, Shehadeh was fired upon and killed along with a group of activists, including Ahmad al-Assam, by the government's forces in the neighbourhood of al-Safsafa in Bab al-Sebaa, Homs. Shehadeh was buried in Homs according to his will. The government's forces prevented his friends from going to the church in Damascus to offer prayers to him and even imposed a"
"Ferzat Jarban Ferzat Jaban (died November 19 or 20, 2011) was the first Syrian journalist reported to be killed while covering the Syrian civil war, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Jarban was a Syrian freelance cameraman who was found dead one day after being arrested for reporting on an anti-government protest and the clashes between protesters and security forces in Al-Qusayr, Homs Governorate, Syria. His videos have appeared on several Arab satellite news outlets. Ferzat Jarban, a Syrian, was arrested on Saturday, 19 November 2011, while videotaping protests against the President Bashar al-Assad's government in Al-Qusayr, according to"
"a news channel. Another Syrian reporter working for Al Jazeera, Zakaria Ibrahim, was killed one year before him in Homs. At the time, six Al Jazeera journalists had been killed during the Syrian Civil War. Reporters Without Borders reacted to his death in the following statement: ""We deplore the unacceptable conditions in which media personnel continue to work in Syria and which often result in their deaths... Journalists are targeted, harassed and killed while just covering events. We firmly condemn the indiscriminate air strikes bombardments that kill many civilians every day and often include journalists among the victims."" Irina Bokova,"
"period, Reporters Without Borders said a total of 33 journalists were killed. Many, such as Marie Colvin, were killed by government forces, but at least one, French journalist Gilles Jacquier, was killed by rebel fire. The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that as of June 2016, 95 journalists have been killed in Syria since 2011. In late 2013 the Associated Press reported that 30 journalists—half of them foreign reporters, half of them Syrian—have been kidnapped or gone missing in Syria since Syria's civil war began in early 2011. According to AP, ""Jihadi groups are believed responsible for most kidnappings"" from"
"showing beheading of opposition prisoners. On 14 February an FSA commander told reporters that his men had repelled a ground assault on Bab amr district, saying that four government tanks had been destroyed when they tried to enter, although his claims could not be verified. On 22 February 2012, American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Rémi Ochlik were killed when a rocket hit their safe house. The day before her death one of them, Colvin, had spoken to ""CNN"" and others of the ""absolutely sickening"", indiscriminate attacks on civilians as the government pursued its objectives. Another photographer, Paul Conroy,"
"al-Tall area of Damascus Countryside. The crew members are, Journalist ""Yara Saleh"", Cameraman ""Abdullah Tabreh"", Cameraman Assistant ""Hatem Abu Yehya"" and the driver ""Hussam Imad"". However, the armed forces freed the team seven days later. Three colleagues were released except of ""Hatem Abu Yehya"" who was killed by the armed groups. On September 5, 2012, Syrian Television Channels broadcast were broken off on Arabsat and Nilesat, including Syrian News Channel. On September 27, 2012, the Syrian News Channel was hijacked for about 90 seconds by unknown sides. ""Mohammed al-Ashram"", cameraman for Syrian News Channel was shot dead in the eastern"
"the Syrian army's daily operations. The Free Syrian Army's Damascus council said they believed at least six out of the eight members, including Turkmani, Assef Shawkat, Mohammad al-Shaar, Daoud Rajha, Hisham Ikhtiyar and Mohammad Said Bakhtian, to have been killed. Mohammad al-Shaar, then interior minister, and Hasan Turkmani, then assistant vice president, denied their own deaths to State TV, calling it ""categorically baseless"". Hasan Turkmani owns the weekly political magazine ""Abyad wa Aswad"" (""Black and White"" in English). Hasan Turkmani was assassinated on 18 July 2012 in a bombing by opposition militants against the national security building in Rawda Square,"
"the two journalists were killed as they were passing through the border into Turkey. The third journalist was taken to Antakya, Syria for medical treatment. The two freelance journalists were filming a documentary about Syrians fleeing to Turkey to escape the violence of the Syrian civil war. At the time, the civil war caused over 200,000 Syrian citizens to be internally displaced, 30,000 to take refuge in another country, and 8,000 people killed. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls Syria ""the most dangerous place for journalists"" from 2011-2012. After the news, the CPJ reported that ""a human rights defender and"
"and other activists said the monitors were barred by security officials from entering Douma following the killings, after the situation deteriorated. On 4 January 2012, a journalist and a host on state-owned Radio Damascus and an editor with the state-owned daily Al-Thawra, was shot in the head by unidentified gunmen on Friday in his home in the Damascus suburb of Darya. State television reported that the journalist was targeted by ""armed terrorist groups."" On 6 January 2012, SANA claimed that another suicide bomber killed at least 26 when a police building or intelligence building was attacked. However, the opposition pointed"
"sometime around 27 December 2011. He was shot in the head while trying to capture video of security forces firing at protesters. It was reported that al-Sayed was reporting things many people could not get by being in very dangerous circumstances and this is what ultimately led to his death. He was capturing video at the moment he was shot and killed. In March 2011, the Syrian civil war began. During this time, Syrian officials banned international journalists from their country. This prompted a rise in citizen journalist to document and publish the civil war and turmoil that was occurring."
"Jamal Khashoggi Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi (; """", ; 13 October 1958 – 2 October 2018) was a Saudi Arabian dissident, author, columnist for the ""Washington Post"", and a general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel who was assassinated at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by agents of the Saudi government. He also served as editor for the Saudi Arabian newspaper ""Al Watan"", turning it into a platform for Saudi Arabian progressives. Khashoggi fled Saudi Arabia in September 2017 and went into self-imposed exile. He said that the Saudi Arabian government had ""banned him from"
"shelled by Syrian Army tanks in April 2012. A freelance journalist for ""Al Jazeera"" and opposition activist, Mohammad al-Massalma (""al-Horani""), was killed by sniper in Busra al-Harir by security forces, according to activists. In late August 2014, the rebel battalions targeted the government-held areas in the city, while army units targeted rebel vehicles. On 24 June 2018, the Syrian Arab Army and its elite branch, the Tiger Forces of Suheil al-Hassan, entered the city after airstrikes conducted by the Russian Air Force paved way for the assault. They captured the town on 26 June. Busra al-Harir Busra al-Harir (, also"
"eyewitnesses. Jarban's body was found the next morning on the street side and his corpse was ""extremely mutilated,"" which included his eyes being gouged out, and with two bullet wounds. According to reports at least four more people were killed by security forces in al-Qasir on Sunday November 20, 2011. Just a day after Jarban was arrested and the same day he was found killed. The arrests and disappearance of other journalists in Syria over the past months is being tracked by the CPJ and other press freedom organizations. It is unknown whether Jarban was the first journalist killed in"
"journalists have been killed. Syria is the country with the second highest number of journalists killed since 1992. Ali's death has been added to a long list of journalists killed in the field. In his work as a freelance photojournalist and activist, he struggled alongside the oppressed subjects of his work, regardless of the cost to himself. Journalists before Mustafa and after will continue to travel and put themselves in dangerous positions in order to ""cover the gaps that are missing in mainstream media."" Irina Bokova, director-general of UNESCO, said, ""I am deeply concerned by the death of Abdul Qader"