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Johanne Sutton. Dasht-e Qaleh. The Radio France International was the first female journalist to die in the War in Afghanistan. Killed in the same tank attack as Billaud and Handloik. [24] 11 November 2001. Volker Handloik. Dasht-e Qaleh. The German freelance journalist was one of three to die in the tank attack.
On July 12, 2007, a series of air-to-ground attacks were conducted by a team of two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, New Baghdad, during the Iraqi insurgency which followed the invasion of Iraq. On April 5, 2010, the attacks received worldwide coverage and controversy following the release of 39 minutes of classified ...
She was killed while on assignment in Afghanistan where she was covering the US military invasion following the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001. She was murdered between Jalalabad and Kabul with three other journalists. [1] [2] Cutuli was the first female and first Italian journalist to be killed during the War in Afghanistan in 2001. [3]
Death of Linda Norgrove. On 26 September 2010, British aid worker Linda Norgrove and three Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by members of the Taliban in the Kunar Province of eastern Afghanistan. She was working in the country as regional director for Development Alternatives Incorporated, a contractor for US and other government agencies.
First female journalist to speak out against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Zaki and her husband Abdul had six children together. Zakia Zaki (c. 1972 – June 4, 2007) was an Afghan journalist for the Afghan Radio Peace (Sada-i-Sulh) station north of Kabul, Afghanistan. She had been given threats on account of her work and was killed at her home ...
S. Journalists killed while covering the Salvadoran Civil War (3 P) Journalists killed while covering the Sierra Leone Civil War (2 P) Journalists killed while covering the Somali Civil War (10 P) Journalists killed while covering the Spanish Civil War (3 P) Journalists killed while covering the Syrian civil war (1 C, 20 P)
Anja Niedringhaus (12 October 1965 – 4 April 2014) was a German photojournalist who worked for the Associated Press (AP). [1][2][3][4] She was the only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Iraq War. [5] That same year she was awarded the International Women's ...
Kandahar, Afghanistan. Education. Simon Fraser University. Occupation. Reporter. Notable credit. Calgary Herald. Michelle Justine Lang (31 January 1975 – 30 December 2009) was a Canadian journalist. Lang was a Calgary Herald reporter and the first Canadian journalist to die in the War in Afghanistan.