The regional director of the rebel-affiliated Syrian Media Organization was killed August 21 in a roadside bombing in the southwestern province of Daraa, according to the group's executive director Abu al-Majd al-Zoabi.
Isil militants have murdered Kenji Goto, the second Japanese hostage to be killed in a week.
Three journalists from the Syrian opposition TV channel Orient News have been killed while covering clashes in the country's south-west, reports say.
Al Jazeera Media Network has announced the death of its Arabic correspondent in Syria, Mahran Al Deeri, while covering battles in the city of Al Sheikh Maskin in rural Daraa.
(BEIRUT) — Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar TV says three of its journalists have been killed after they came under attack in the Syrian town of Maaloula.
Two journalists were killed over the weekend while covering the conflict in Syria, the deadliest country for the press.
A citizen journalist was killed in Syria on Thursday 20 February.
A poet, journalist and third-year student at Damascus media college who was originally from the Golan Plateau, Mo’az al-Khaled was just 23 when political security officials arrested him at his home in the Damascus district of Barzeh on 4 June 2012 because of his coverage of peaceful demonstrations in Barzeh and neighbouring Qaboun.