04 December 2024 | CPJ
Photojournalist killed in an airstrike near city of Hama
Other non-natural
Anas Alkharboutli, 32, who worked as a photographer for the German agency dpa, was killed in an airstrike by the Syrian military forces in the town of Morek, near the western city of Hama, while covering the recent battles between government and rebel forces, according to multiple news reports, his outlet, and his colleague Ghiath Al-Sayed, who spoke to CPJ.
Alkharboutli studied engineering at the University of Damascus, his hometown, and started working in photojournalism in 2015, according to those sources. He joined the agency in 2017, as a photographer in the Middle East, and has been covering “primarily the Syrian civil war zone,” dpa said, adding that “in the past few days, his pictures have been seen around the world, as Anas was reporting on the new flare-up of the civil war and the advance of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel alliance.
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