Syrian journalist killed in militant mortar attack near Damascus
A Syrian reporter has been killed in a mortar attack by Takfiri militants outside Syria’s capital, Damascus, state media say.
On Tuesday, Syria’s official news agency SANA said Batoul Moukhlis al-Warar, a presenter for the country’s Nour al-Sham TV and Damascus Radio, was killed by mortar fire as she was going to work in a suburb of Damascus.
A number of others were also wounded in the mortar fire, according to Syrian television.
At least 48 journalists have lost their lives in Syria since the foreign-backed militancy started in the Arab country in 2011, according to figures released by Reporters Without Borders, known by its French acronym RSF.
In August, Iranian reporter Mohammad Hassan Hosseini was injured in a mortar attack in Syria’s western port city of Latakia. Back in September 2012, Press TV’s correspondent in Syria, Maya Naser, lost his life in a militant assault in Damascus.
More than 250,000 people have been killed in Syria over the past few years.
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