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Al-Zabi was shot in the chest by a sniper while covering clashes between the Syrian army and rebel forces in the neighborhood of Tafas in the southern city of Daraa, according to regional and local news outlets. It was not immediately clear if al-Zabi was targeted by a sniper affiliated with the Syrian regime, or…

Ismail, and two of his colleagues, Issam Obeid and Loay al-Nimir, were killed when a mortar shell hit them while they were filming clashes between security forces and armed rebels in the southern Damascus suburb of Arbin, according to news reports. The rebel Free Syrian Army captured Arbin in July 2012, but has been engaged…

Obeid, and two of his colleagues, Abdel Karim Nazir Ismail and Loay al-Nimir, were killed when a mortar shell hit them while they were filming clashes between security forces and armed rebels in the southern Damascus suburb of Arbin, according to news reports. The three videographers contributed to the Syrian Media Center, a local news…

Al-Nimir, and two of his colleagues, Issam Obeid and Abdel Karim Nazir Ismail, were killed when a mortar shell hit them while they were filming clashes between security forces and armed rebels in the southern Damascus suburb of Arbin, according to news reports. The rebel Free Syrian Army captured Arbin in July 2012, but has…

Amira was killed by sniper fire while covering clashes near the Damascus suburb of Abaseen, according to Shaam News Network and the local press freedom group Syrian Journalists Association who confirmed the death via email. Several opposition groups said Amira was killed by a pro-Assad sniper, but did not offer further details. Amira, who was…

Junaid was head of the Qaboun Media Center, a group of opposition citizen journalists who film clashes in the neighborhood of Qaboun and publish the unattributed videos online, according to international broadcaster Al-Jazeera and the local press freedom group Syrian Journalists Association. Junaid, who was known locally as “Abu Ameer,” was killed with Ghaith Abd…

Al-Jawad documented clashes and protests for the Qaboun Media Center, a group of opposition citizen journalists who film clashes in the neighborhood of Qaboun and publish the unattributed videos online, according to international broadcaster Al-Jazeera and the local press freedom group Syrian Journalists Association. Al-Jawad, who was known locally as “Abu Teem,” was killed with…

Diab was shot by government forces while covering clashes between the rebel Free Syrian Army and Syrian government forces in the neighborhood of Al-Otaiba, according to the Saudi-based news website Al-Sharq and the Syrian Center for Human Rights. Diab, who was known locally as “Abu al-Majid al-Ghoutani,” was a videographer and reporter, who regularly filmed…

Al-Musalama was killed while filming clashes in the southern Syrian town of Daraa, according to the Syrian Journalists Association and local news reports. Abo Kasem, a member of the group Revolutionaries of Daraa Al-Muhata-Tariq al-Sadd, told CPJ that al-Musalama filmed local events and clashes in the city for the group’s Facebook page and YouTube channel….

Zado, the Homs director of the citizen news organization Shaam News Network, was killed along with two colleagues–Ahmed Adnan al-Ashlaq, a Shaam correspondent, and Lawrence Fahmy al-Naimi, the head of live streaming for the network–while filming clashes between security forces and armed rebels in Damascus. The journalists were in an apartment in the Al-Midan neighborhood when…