Islamic State recedes but threats to journalists in Iraq and Syria remain
December 21, 2017 12:00 AM ET
After three years of fighting in Iraq and Syria, the militant group Islamic State has been forced out of large swathes of territory. But local journalists and press freedom groups with whom CPJ spoke said that the defeat of...
Gunmen, suicide bombers attack Kabul TV station
November 7, 2017 3:56 PM ET
New York, November 7, 2017--The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the attack on a television station today in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gunmen and suicide bombers this morning attacked Shamshad TV, a leading Pashto-language station, killing one security guard and...
CPJ safety advisory: use of chemical agents in the Mosul offensive
March 6, 2017 2:42 PM ET
A dozen civilians, including women and children, have been treated for suspected exposure to a blistering chemical agent following an Islamic State (IS) attack on East Mosul, Iraq, last week, according to news reports. The International Committee of the Red...
Getting Away With Murder
October 27, 2016 8:00 AM ET
CPJ’s 2016 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free By Elisabeth Witchel, CPJ Impunity Campaign Consultant Published October 27, 2016. Some of the highest rates of impunity in the murders of journalists...
Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans killed in Libya
October 2, 2016 4:40 PM ET
New York, October 2, 2016 - Dutch freelance photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans was killed today in the Libyan city of Sirte while covering clashes between Islamic State fighters and forces loyal to the Libyan Army, according to Dutch and Libyan...
Abdelqadir Fassouk second Libyan photojournalist to be killed in a month
July 22, 2016 4:30 PM ET
Washington, July 22, 2016--The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the killing of Arraed television correspondent and prominent Libyan photojournalist Abdelqadir Fassouk, who was shot yesterday while covering clashes between government-allied forces and the militant group Islamic State, according...
Syrian journalist Naji Jerf shot dead in Gaziantep, Turkey
December 27, 2015 2:03 PM ET
New York, December 27, 2015--Naji Jerf, editor-in-chief of the independent monthly Hentah and the maker of documentary films on the militant group Islamic State, was shot and killed in broad daylight today by unknown assailants with a silenced pistol in...