David Gilkey, Afghanistan

American journalist David Gilkey was killed on on June 5, 2016 while on assignment in Afghanistan when the convoy he was traveling with came under fire by Taliban insurgents. Gilkey, a photographer and videographer for U.S. media outlet National Public Radio (NPR), was placed with Afghan Special Forces in the Helmand Province as a member of a four-person reporting team. Gilkey had been with NPR since 2007 and reporting on the war on terror since Sept. 11, 2001.

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