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A Yemeni student runs on September 16, 2018, at a school that was damaged last year in an airstrike during fighting between Saudi-backed military coalition forces and Houthis in the city of Taiz. A Saudi airstrike hit a Houthi-controlled radio station in Hodeida Governorate on September 16, killing three employees. (AFP/Ahmad al-Basha)

Saudi airstrike hits Yemeni radio station

September 17, 2018 5:10 PM EDT

New York, September 17, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition’s airstrike on a Yemeni radio station yesterday. The airstrike against the Ansar Allah-controlled Al-Maraweah Radio Broadcasting Center, located in Al-Maraweah District in Hodeida Governorate, killed three employees as well as a civilian in the vicinity of the building, according…

Monitoring violence against journalists in Afghanistan

August 23, 2013 4:09 PM EDT

The Afghan Journalist Safety Committee, which works closely with CPJ, has just published a report on media conditions and attacks on journalists for the first six months of 2013.

Remembering Iraq, a forgotten war

June 13, 2013 12:19 PM EDT

As growing sectarian violence across Iraq renews fears of civil war, journalists gathered in New York this week to talk about their experiences reporting in the country over the past decade.