Prominent Syrian TV reporter killed in battle for city of Qusair
مقتل إعلامية سورية تعمل بقناة "الإخبارية" المصريون – وكالات الإثنين, 27 مايو 2013 19:00
BEIRUT—A young Syrian television journalist well-known for her pro-government dispatches from the front lines of the nation’s raging civil conflict was shot and killed Monday outside the battleground city of Qusair, the state press agency said.
Yara Abbas, who often reported with a flack vest and helmet while accompanying Syrian troops, fell to “terrorists’ gunfire” as she was reporting on the fighting, said the official Syrian Arab News Agency. She was in her mid-20s.
Syrian officials and pro-government news outlets routinely use the term “terrorists” for armed rebels seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad.
Abbas was an on-air reporter for Al-Ikhbariya TV, which has been previously targeted by rebels for its fervent pro-government stance. Last June, armed men stormed the station’s former headquarters south of Damascus, killing seven, kidnapping others and setting the studio and offices ablaze.
Yara Abbas, who often reported with a flack vest and helmet while accompanying Syrian troops, fell to “terrorists’ gunfire” as she was reporting on the fighting, said the official Syrian Arab News Agency. She was in her mid-20s.
Syrian officials and pro-government news outlets routinely use the term “terrorists” for armed rebels seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad.
Abbas was an on-air reporter for Al-Ikhbariya TV, which has been previously targeted by rebels for its fervent pro-government stance. Last June, armed men stormed the station’s former headquarters south of Damascus, killing seven, kidnapping others and setting the studio and offices ablaze.
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