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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 Bassem 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
File: Diane and John Foley, the parents of slain US journalist James Foley, stand in the war reporters' memorial after the unveiling of a stone in honor of the war reporters killed in 2014, on October 9, 2014 in Bayeux, northwestern France. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)
January 31, 2016, 4:35 am
Report counts 2,300 journalists killed in 25 years
‘Last ten years were the most dangerous,’ says journalists’ group, estimating that just one in ten killings is investigated
By Raf Casert
Side by side photos of an emaciated Syrian in an Assad-regime prison next to the paunchy looking Samir Kuntar leaving an Israeli jail after nearly 30 years, posted by al-Jazeera journalist Faisal al-Qassem in December 2015 (Facebook)
December 22, 2015, 11:29 pm
Photo of plump prisoner Kuntar drives rare Arab praise of Israel on Facebook
Split screen picture of notorious terrorist leaving Israeli jail, starved Syrian captive highlights stark differences in treatment of prisoners
By Raoul Wootliff
Syrians stand on the rubble of buildings after a missile fired by Syrian government forces hit a residential area in the Maghayir district in the old quarter of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on July 21, 2015. (Photo by AFP Photo / Karam Al-Masri)
July 21, 2015, 11:19 pm
3 Spanish journalists disappear in Aleppo
Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre entered Syria on July 10, were last heard from two days later
By Alan Clendenning and Zeina Karam
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