Ibrahim Omar, Syria

Ibrahim Omar, a journalist with Al Jazeera, was killed in an air strike on the town of Tarmanin, in Syria’s Idlib province, near the border with Turkey on July 11, 2016. The journalist reportedly had been embedded with rebel forces in the days leading up to his death. Al Jazeera said that the air strike was attributable to Russian forces supporting the Syrian government.

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