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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 621

journalists in Syria

IDF troops operate in southern Syria, in a handout photo issued on March 8, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 6, 2025, 11:08 am
BBC says its journalists detained and strip-searched by Israeli forces in Syria
Feras Kilani says his team was held for hours at gunpoint, interrogated, and subjected to threats after filming near IDF positions in the UN buffer zone; no comment from IDF
By Stav Levaton and Emanuel Fabian
Marc (L) and Debra Tice, parents of US journalist Austin Tice who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012, hold respective dated portraits of him during a press conference in the Lebanese capital Beirut on July 20, 2017. (Joseph Eid/AFP)
December 18, 2024, 8:21 pm
PM tells mom of missing US journalist Israel won’t strike part of Syria he may be in
Debra Tice, whose son Austin was abducted during the early days of the Syrian civil war, appeals to Netanyahu to ensure no harm comes to him amid strikes on Assad’s military assets
By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies
Austin Tice. (screen capture: YouTube)
December 15, 2024, 6:52 am
Missing US journalist Austin Tice briefly escaped Syrian jail in 2013 — sources
Reporter was recaptured after entering house in Damascus; no sign of Tice yet after fall of Syria’s Assad, with some US officials fearing he may have been killed in Israeli strike
By Erin Banco and Jonathan Landay
Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda, center, is driven out of the immigration center in Antakya, Turkey, October 24, 2018. (Yosuke Mizuno/Kyodo News via AP)
October 25, 2018, 11:46 am
Freed from Syria, Japanese reporter happy to go home after 3 years in ‘hell’
Jumpei Yasuda recounts al-Qaeda captivity, where he wasn’t allowed to bathe for 8 months, says he’s uncertain how to catch up with a changing world
By Mari Yamaguchi
In this February 18, 2015 photo, Japanese freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda speaks during an interview in Tokyo. (Kyodo News via AP)
October 23, 2018, 8:18 pm
Japan says man believed to be missing journalist in Syria freed after 3 years
Turkish authorities verifying if released man is Jumpei Yasuda, who went missing in 2015 while covering the Syrian civil war
By Mari Yamaguchi
Syrian government soldiers ride in an infantry-fighting vehicle in the town of Saida in the west of Daraa province on July 7, 2018. (Youssef Karwashan/AFP)
July 11, 2018, 8:47 pm
Media activists fear for their lives in southwestern Syria
Committee to Protect Journalists says there are 70 opposition reporters in areas that could soon fall to hostile regime forces
By Bassam Mroue
This file photo taken on September 10, 2017, shows Issam Zahreddine (C), a major general in the Syrian Republican Guard, in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor. (AFP Photo/George Ourfalian)
October 19, 2017, 4:38 pm
Syria general blamed for 2012 journalist deaths dies in blast
Issam Zahreddine was accused of shelling the building where Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed
By AFP
In this undated photo South African journalist Shiraaz Mohamed is photographed in Johannesburg. (AP Photo)
January 14, 2017, 6:11 pm
South African freelance journalist kidnapped in Syria
Shiraaz Mohamed was leaving war-torn country when he and 2 NGO workers were seized at gunpoint near Turkish border
By AFP
A picture of Associated Press video journalist Simone Camilli, who was killed Wednesday along with a freelance Palestinian translator working with him when ordnance left over from Israeli-Hamas fighting exploded, lies on his coffin during the funeral service at the Pitigliano Cathedral, Italy, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Riccardo De Luca, Pool)
December 19, 2016, 7:44 am
74 journalists killed on the job in 2016 — report
Toll, including 19 deaths in Syria, ‘reflects glaring failure’ to protect media workers, says Reporters without Borders
By AFP and ToI Staff
Iranian journalist Mohsen Khazaei (Facebook)
November 12, 2016, 9:41 pm
Iran state TV reporter killed in Syria
Mohsen Khazaei dies, a cameraman is injured after rebel mortar attack in battlefront city of Aleppo
By AFP
Theo Padnos reenacts his imprisonment by al-Qaeda in Syria (Nusra Front) in 'Theo Who Lived.' (Zeitgeist Films)
October 6, 2016, 11:53 am
Tortured by al-Qaeda in Syria, a US journalist is determined to end the civil war
Ahead of a new documentary, Theo Padnos discusses his harrowing 22-month ordeal — from capture after crossing Turkish border to Qatar-brokered release on Golan Heights
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A building is seen with heavy damage in Aleppo, Syria, February 11, 2016. (Alexander Kots/Komsomolskaya Pravda via AP)
May 8, 2016, 1:16 am
3 journalists missing in Syria since July said freed
Spaniards Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre disappeared in Aleppo; Madrid says they are safe and well
By AP
Screen shot of an FBI poster about Austin Bennett Tice, a photojournalist from Texas who disappeared in Syria in August 2012. (FBI)
April 10, 2016, 5:13 am
Renewed hope for family of US journalist held in Syria
Kevin Dawes’s release by Syrian regime ‘quite heartening’ for family of photojournalist Austin Tice, missing since 2012
By AFP
American freelance photographer Kevin Patrick Dawes, who went missing in Syria in 2012, was released by the Syrian government to Russian officials in April 2016. (FBI)
April 10, 2016, 5:08 am
Family of US citizen released by Syria is thankful
Kevin Patrick Dawes, who went missing in Syria in 2012, released to Russian authorities by Syrian regime
By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP
Syrian regime soldiers walk down a road in an area around Kweyris military airport, in the eastern Aleppo province on October 16, 2015. (AFP/George Ourfalian)
April 8, 2016, 10:09 pm
Syrian regime frees US citizen missing for over 3 years
State Department announces release of American, but declines to confirm report that it is 33-year-old Kevin Dawes
By AFP
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