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The funeral of Deniz Firat, a journalist who was killed in Iraqi Kurdistan. (Facebook/Kamal Chomani)

Kurdish reporter killed in Iraqi Kurdistan

New York, August 11, 2014–A Kurdish journalist was killed in Makhmur district, south of the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, on Friday when shrapnel from mortar shelling hit her in the chest, according to news reports. Deniz Firat, a freelance reporter, was covering clashes between Kurdish forces and insurgents with the Islamic State, an…

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