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The entrance of the Yarmouk camp in Damascus in May 2018. A Palestinian photojournalist who covered life in the camp has died while in Syrian government custody. (Reuters/Omar Sanadiki)

Palestinian photojournalist jailed in 2015 dies in Syrian government custody

July 16, 2018 6:17 PM EDT

Beirut, July 16, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Syrian authorities to conduct an immediate and transparent investigation into the death of Niraz Saeed, a Palestinian-Syrian photojournalist who died in state custody. The news of his death comes as dozens of journalists trapped in southwest Syria have appealed for help to escape the…

A Syrian soldier at the Nasib border crossing with Jordan in Deraa, Syria on July 7, 2018. At least 70 journalists and media workers are caught in Quneitra between advancing forces aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the closed borders of Israel and Jordan, according to CPJ research. (Reuters/ Omar Sanadiki)

At least 70 Syrian journalists trapped in southwestern Syria

July 10, 2018 5:40 PM EDT

Beirut, July 10, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed concern about dozens of Syrian journalists and media workers trapped in the southwestern Syrian provinces of Daraa and Quneitra.

A convoy carrying displaced Syrians arrives at a checkpoint in the western countryside of Idlib province on June 1, 2018. A Syrian militia detained a reporter in western Idlib on June 24. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

Syrian militia detains reporter in western Idlib

July 5, 2018 4:55 PM EDT

Members of the militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on June 24, 2018, detained Syrian journalist Mohammed Fadl al-Janoudi (also known as Mohammad al-Shami), a correspondent for the pro-opposition Qasioun News Agency in western Idlib and northern Lattakia, at his home in a displaced persons camp in the town of Bedama, between the villages of Ayn…

Rebel fighters stand at a lookout point, west of Manbij city, in the Aleppo Governorate in Syria on March 9, 2017. A group of journalists had planned to film a report in the nearby village of Al-Hoshiriya about a June 4 agreement between the U.S. and Turkey on the full withdrawal of Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) from Mambij, a main hub in the area, when they were detained by an FSA brigade, according to reports. (Reuters/Khalil Ashawi)

Free Syrian Army group detains 3 journalists in northern Syria

July 5, 2018 3:22 PM EDT

Members of the Northern Brigade of the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) on June 22, 2018, detained Kaniwar Khalef and Essam al-Abbas, camerapersons for the Dubai-based news agency Arab 24, and Hassan Khalef, their camera assistant, in northeastern Syria near the village of Chath, according to the Syrian Journalists Association, the regional press freedom group…

Buses arrive in the Syrian town of Azaz on April 5, 2018. A correspondent and cameraperson from Syria TV were detained and assaulted by Members of the General Public Security, a Free Syrian Army (FSA) security force on May 15, 2018, according to reports. (AFP/Nazeer al-Khatib)

Two Syrian journalists detained, assaulted northwest of Aleppo

May 25, 2018 2:06 PM EDT

Members of the General Public Security, a Free Syrian Army (FSA) security force, on May 15, 2018, assaulted and detained Wael Adel and Omar Hafez, a correspondent and cameraperson, respectively, for the Turkey-based, pro-opposition Syria TV, according to their employer, news reports, the Syrian Journalists Association, and the regional press freedom group SKeyes Center for…

Children play football in front of a damaged building in a rebel-held neighborhood of Daraa in southern Syria on May 7, 2018. Unknown gunmen killed journalist Ibrahim al-Munjar in Daraa on May 17. (Mohamad Abazeed/AFP)

Unknown gunmen kill Syrian journalist in eastern Daraa

May 18, 2018 4:35 PM EDT

Beirut, May 18, 2018–Two unknown gunmen killed Ibrahim al-Munjar, a correspondent for the Syrian news website Sy24 in the southern Syrian province of Daraa. Al-Munjar was killed in the city of Saida on May 17, according to his employer, news reports, and the Syrian Journalists Association.

The al-Assi river in the town of Darkush in Syria's Idlib province on July 8, 2016. A Syrian militant group detained photographers Ahmad al-Akhras and Rami al-Ruslan as they were taking pictures of a water spring east of Darkush. (Reuters/Ammar Abdullah)

Syrian militia detains photographer in western Idlib

May 9, 2018 6:24 PM EDT

The Syrian militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham detained Ahmad al-Akhras, a photographer for the pro-opposition Syrian news website Sy24 and correspondent for the opposition-affiliated Syrian Revolutionary Media Office in Idlib, on April 28, 2018, near the northwestern Syrian city of Darkush, according to news reports, the regional press freedom group SKeyes Center for Media and…

A bus carries rebels and their families who left Douma, at the entrance of the Wafideen camp in Damascus, Syria April 12, 2018. (Reuters/Omar Sanadiki)

Three Russian journalists injured by gunfire in eastern Ghouta, Syria

April 13, 2018 6:13 PM EDT

Three journalists were injured when a bus carrying Russian media came under fire from unknown assailants in the Syrian city of Douma, 16 kilometers (10 miles) away from Damascus, in the eastern Ghouta region on April 11, 2018, according to news reports and the journalists’ employers.

Marc and Debra Tice, the parents of Austin Tice, who went missing in Syria in 2012, hold up photos of him during a press conference at the Press Club in Beirut, Lebanon, on July 20, 2017. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

A small thing you can do to help #FreeAustinTice

April 6, 2018 10:15 AM EDT

In August 2012, freelance journalist Austin Tice disappeared while reporting in Syria. A brief video made public a few weeks later showed Tice as a captive. He has not been heard from since.

Members Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces stand guard near destroyed buildings in eastern Ghouta on April 2, 2018. Two members of a Turkish-funded militant group on March 21, 2018, attacked a Syrian cameraperson as he was covering the arrival of refugee convoys from eastern Ghouta, according to reports. (Reuters/Omar Sanadiki)

Syrian journalist attacked covering arrival of Ghouta evacuees in Hama

April 6, 2018 10:01 AM EDT

Two members of the Turkish-funded militant group Ahrar al-Sham on March 31, 2018, attacked Syrian photographer and cameraperson Mohammed Hussein Obeid, also known as Abu Fahd al-Shami, while he was covering the arrival of refugee convoys from eastern Ghouta to the northwestern Hama province, according to the Syrian Journalists Association and Obeid.