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On the morning of October 30, 2017,eight masked men forced their way into the home of Arkan Sharifi, a cameraman for Kurdistan TV, and stabbed the journalist to death in front of his family in the city of Daquq in north central Iraq, his employer and other local media reported. Sharifi had returned to Daquq four days before…
Iraqi fixer and journalist Bakhtiyar Haddad was killed, along with French cameraman Stephan Villeneuve and French journalist Veronique Robert, in an explosion that also injured French journalist Samuel Forey, as they covered Iraqi soldiers’ efforts to retake control of the old city of Mosul on June 19, 2017, according to news reports and the French…
Iraqi-Kurdish reporter and Kurdish-language Rudaw TV news anchor Shifa Zikri Ibrahim, known professionally as Shifa Gardi, was killed on February 25, 2017, by a roadside bomb while covering the Iraqi Army’s offensive against the Islamic State group in western Mosul, according to the network and news reports. Gardi and her team were on a mission…
Iraqi TV presenter Muhannad al-Okaidi was kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Mosul in August 2014, colleagues told CPJ during a series of interviews in the Iraqi city of Irbil. Some of the journalists with whom CPJ spoke said al-Okaidi was taken from his home. A colleague from Al-Mosuliya TV, who requested anonymity because of…
Cameraman Mustafa Said was killed on August 14, 2016, while covering fighting between Kurdish militias and fighters from the Islamic State group near Mosul. Correspondent Hayman Nanqli was also injured, AFP reported. Both journalists worked for Kurdistan TV, a TV channel owned by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the de facto party of government in…
Unknown gunmen shot and killed Garmyane outside his home in town of Kalar, south of the Kurdish Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah, news reports said. Garmyane was the editor-in-chief of the news website Rayel and a correspondent for the Kurdish-language newspaper Awene. Garmyane had published several reports alleging corruption among Kurdish politicians, especially of those within…
Osman, 23, a contributor to the independent newspaper Ashtiname and news websites Sbei, Awene, Hawlati, and Lvinpress, was found shot to death in the northern city of Mosul, according to news reports. Unidentified gunmen had seized Osman a day earlier on the campus of the University of Salahadin in Arbil, where he was a final-year…
A triple bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed at least 85 people, including editor Mustafa Gaimayani and reporter Majeed Mohammed, and wounded more than 180 others. A suicide attacker driving a truck packed with explosives detonated the vehicle near one of the offices of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s party, the Patriotic…
A triple bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed at least 85 people, including editor Mustafa Gaimayani and reporter Majeed Mohammed, and wounded more than 180 others. A suicide attacker driving a truck packed with explosives detonated the vehicle near one of the offices of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s party, the Patriotic…
Gunmen killed Lutfallah, 35, an Iraqi cameraman for Associated Press Television News, as he covered clashes between insurgents and police in the northern city of Mosul. The Associated Press reported that Lutfallah was having his car repaired in the city’s eastern Al-Karama neighborhood when insurgents and police began fighting nearby. He rushed to cover the…