IPI called for a thorough investigation into the murder of Kamiran Salaheddin, a news presenter for Salaheddin channel, who was killed on Tuesday in Iraq, according to reports. Salaheddin, 34 or 35 depending on reports, died after a “sticky bomb” (a magnetic bomb) attached to his car exploded while he was on the way home […]

In 2011, 12-31  journalists were killed because of their work, according to the International Press Institute (IPI) Death Watch. Reporters and cameramen faced a range of threats. Some were in the wrong place at the wrong time, on the job when natural disaster struck or bombs exploded. But almost all of the journalists killed in […]

An Iraqi journalist reporting for the satellite television station al-Ittijah, whose name remains unknown, was among those killed Thursday in a blast that targeted a celebration in the city of Ramadi, Aswat al Iraq news agency reported today. The killing occurred only a week after another Iraqi journalist was shot dead in Mosul by a group of […]

A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle in front of the Baghdad bureau of Al-Arabiya TV on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding at least sixteen others, media reports said. Three security guards and a female cleaner were reportedly among the dead. The suicide bomber, who was driving a white minivan, managed […]