Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is extremely concerned about the increase in attacks on journalists in Iraq, where three have been killed in the first month of the year and a fourth narrowly escaped a shooting attack yesterday. The Iraqi authorities must provide journalists with more protection, RSF said.
Iraqi cameraman and war photographer Louay Sadiq Meshaal died in a car bomb attack in Iraq's central Kirkuk province while he was embedded with a local fighting unit, according to Sadiq's employer al-Nujaba TV, which is affiliated with the Iranian-backed militia Harakat al-Nujaba.
The Islamic State (IS) terrorist outfit executed Iraqi journalist Feras Yasin on charges of apostasy and showing no remorse, according to the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate.
An Iraqi journalist critical of Haider al-Abadi’s government was found dead at his home in Baghdad in the western Qadisiya district with a single bullet wound to the chest.
The Islamic State (IS) group killed seven people Friday, including two journalists, in the Muqdadiyah area north of Baghdad, their employers and officials said.
BAGHDAD (AP) The governor of Iraq's Salahuddin province says a journalist from a local television network has been killed by the Islamic State group.
A journalists' rights group says a Turkish journalist has been killed in Iraq during clashes between Islamic militants and Kurdish Peshmerga forces and has demanded an investigation into the circumstances of her death.
At least one journalist was killed and another injured Sunday [15 June] in an attack in northern Diyala province, the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate and Iraqi news outlets reported.
A news photographer was killed while covering fighting between Kurdish security forces and jihadists in northern Iraq on Thursday, medical and security sources said.
An Iraqi presidential guard has shot dead the Baghdad bureau chief of RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq (RFI), Mohammed Bdaiwi Obaid al-Shammari.