MOSCOW, July 30 (Sputnik) — Khaled Alkhateb, a journalist working with the RT Arabic broadcaster, on Sunday was killed in shelling carried out by the Daesh (outlawed in Russia) terrorist group in Syria's western province of Homs. Below is the information on the deaths of journalists in Syria over several past years.
2017
On July 30, RT stringer Khaled Alkhateb died during the coverage of the Syrian army's operation against the militants of the Daesh terrorist group in the area of Sukhna in the east of the Homs province. Cameraman Muutaz Yaqoub, who was working with Alkhateb, was injured in the shelling.
On March 12, a journalist of the Nabd Syria, opposition Syrian media, Mohamed Abazid, known by the pen name George Samara, was killed during the shelling of the city of Daraa in southwestern Syria.
2016
On November 12, an explosion of an artillery shell in Aleppo killed Mohsen Khazai, a reporter with Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), who was covering events around the city.
On August 2, Ahmad Hallak, a correspondent with Al-Buraq Media Institution, was killed during an airstrike on the western outskirts of Aleppo.
On July 14, the correspondent of the Arabic news agency Shahba Press Agency, Abdullah Mohammad Ghannam, died during an air strike in a hospital in Kafr Hamra, on the northern outskirts of Aleppo, while filming a report about the consequences of previous air attacks.
On June 25, it became known that Daesh executed radio journalist Samer Mohammed Aboud and four of his Syrian colleagues in the city of Deir ez-Zur in the northeast of Syria.
In early January, Daesh militants executed civil journalist Ruqia Hassan, a member of the activist group known as Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered, who sometimes wrote under the pen name Nissan Ibrahim. She told about life in the Daesh-occupied territory, including in Raqqa, in her social networks accounts.
2015
On January 31, militants of the Daesh group posted a video of the execution of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. The Japanese journalist went to a Daesh-controlled area and fell into the hands of the militants because he intended to rescue Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa, who had disappeared in Syria.
2014
On December 10, Al Jazeera correspondent Mahran Al Deeri died while shooting a report about the fights between government forces and militants in Syria.
On August 19, Daesh released a video of the execution of US journalist James Wright Foley, who was captured in 2012 in Syria while working for working for Agence France-Presse and GlobalPost. The US National Security Council confirmed the authenticity of the video.
On June 20, Egyptian photojournalist of the Xinhua news agency Ahmed Hassan Ahmed died of bullet wounds received during the coverage of the presidential elections in Syria on June 4.
2013
On October 30, Al Arabiya TV journalist, Syrian citizen Mohammad Saeed, was killed near the city of Aleppo by unknown persons. The reporter of the TV channel mainly covered the humanitarian problems of the country.
2012
On February 22, US journalist Marie Colvin of UK-based Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the shelling of the town of Homs. The bodies of journalists were discovered when government forces regained control over the city. An autopsy conducted in Damascus found that Colvin and Ochlik were killed by a "homemade explosive device stuffed with nails."
