The Syrian conflict continues and the country remains a black hole for the mainstream media, with foreign news outlets relying heavily on accounts from activists and citizen reporters to provide news and images, and reports from the correspondents who bravely manage to cross into the country. Two Turkish journalists who had been missing since Sunday, […]

IPI has joined nearly 20 other organizations in again calling for the release of Mazen Darwish and his colleagues from the Syrian Centre for Media & Freedom of Expression, one month after they were detained during a raid on their Damascus offices. The full text of the statement is below: The Syrian authorities must reveal […]

Reporters Edith Bouvier and William Daniels have escaped the besieged Syrian city of Homs and are currently in Lebanon, according to AP. During a European summit in Brussels, French President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed that he had spoken to Bouvier and that she and Daniels had been smuggled into Lebanon. He added that Bouvier would be […]

British photographer Paul Conroy has reportedly been safely evacuated to Lebanon, while the whereabouts of French correspondent Edith Bouvier remain unconfirmed, nearly a week after the journalists were injured in an assault that killed Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and photojournalist Remi Ochlik. “We welcome the reported safe evacuation of Paul Conroy, but are deeply […]