An attempt to rescue two Western journalists wounded in a rocket attack in Syria failed over the weekend, while efforts were apparently underway to secure the release of two Welsh journalists detained in Libya. According to news reports, Sunday Times (U.K.) photographer Paul Conroy and Le Figaro correspondent Edith Bouvier declined to be evacuated on […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of publishers, editors and leading journalists dedicated to the defense and furtherance of press freedom around the world, has joined 32 other international human rights and press freedom organizations in calling for the immediate release of Mazen Darwish and others arrested during a raid on the Syrian […]

Two foreign journalists and a Syrian videographer have been killed by mortar shells in the Syrian city of Homs, where areas of the city have been under siege since the beginning of the month, news reports say. Marie Colvin of the London-based Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik, 28, were killed when a rocket […]

IPI is saddened by the passing of reporter Anthony Shadid of the New York Times, who died of an apparent asthma attack while on assignment in Syria. Shadid, 43, is survived by his parents, wife and two children. The two-time Pulitzer Prize — winning journalist and author died while crossing the Syrian-Turkish border after a […]