Militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham assaults at least 12 Syrian journalists covering joint Russian-Turkish military patrol in Idlib
On June 10, 2020, several members of the militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an Al-Qaeda offshoot previously known as Al-Nusra Front, hit and kicked at least 12 Syrian journalists while they were covering a joint Turkish-Russian military patrol on the M4 Highway, which links Latakia and Aleppo, according to four of the journalists who…
Tariq Saeed Balsha
Balsha, a freelance cameraman, was arrested in the coastal city of Latakia three days after he covered government troops opening fire on Al-Raml Palestinian refugee camp, according to local press freedom groups. Balsha’s footage of demonstrations and authorities’ efforts to quash unrest had been posted to a number of websites, including the Shaam News Network,…
Ibrahim al-Munjar
Ibrahim al-Munjar, a correspondent for the Syrian news website Sy24, was shot and killed in the city of Saida in the southern Syrian province of Daraa on the morning of May 17, 2018, according to his employer, news reports, and the Syrian Journalists Association. At least one of two men riding a motorcycle past al-Munjar’s house in Saida shot the journalist,…
Fares Maamou
Since Fares Maamou’s arrest by Syrian security forces in 2012, no news has emerged about the journalist’s status or whereabouts. Maamou was a contributor to the Damascus-based Shaam News Network and posted tens of thousands of videos documenting the unrest in Syria since the start of the uprising in March 2011. The network’s footage was…
Mustafa Abdul Hassa
Mustafa Abdul Hassa, a 28-year old former correspondent for Shaam News Network, was executed by Islamic State militants, his former employer confirmed to the Committee to Protect Journalists, following the release of a video showing his murder. The video also shows the killing of four other Syrian journalists and media workers. The Islamic State group…
Dirar al-Jahad
Online journalist al-Jahad was killed when gunmen stormed his house in Abtaa, a town in Daraa province, according to the Local Coordination Committees, the Abtaa Media Office, and news reports. Fayez Abu Halawa, a stringer for Orient News, was killed in the same attack, along with Ahmad Mahmoud al-Jahad and Nasr al-Jahad, who were rebel…
Fayez Abu Halawa
Abu Halawa was killed in the town of Abtaa, Daraa province, when gunmen stormed a house he was in, according to the TV channel he worked for and local news reports. Also killed in the attack were Dirar al-Jahad, an online journalist who owned the house, and Ahmad Mahmoud al-Jahad and Nasr al-Jahad, two rebel…
Humam Najjar (Abu Yazan al-Halabi)
Najjar, a TV presenter and online reporter, died on April 16, nine days after he was injured in a car bomb that detonated at the headquarters of several local rebel groups in the town of Marea, press freedom group SKeyes and local news outlets reported. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. Najjar was…
Al-Moutaz Bellah Ibrahim
Ibrahim, a correspondent for the independent Shaam News Network and a freelance reporter, was killed in Tel Abyad, a Syrian town north of the city of Raqqa, on May 4, according to Shaam and the Beirut-based SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom. Ibrahim was kidnapped by the Islamic State militant group (then called Islamic…
Atallah Bajbouj
Bajbouj died almost a week after sustaining injuries to his head from mortar shell shrapnel, according to the Syrian Journalists Association and his media group, the Nabaa Media Foundation. Bajbouj was transferred to a hospital in Jordan for treatment but died on October 15, 2014, according to the reports. At the time of his injury,…