Editor-in-chief of Iraqi newspaper assassinated in Baghdad
The security situation in Iraq is becoming increasingly uncomfortable for media representatives: on Sunday, Mohan el Dhar, editor-in-chief of the independent daily newspaper El Mashreq, was gunned down by unknown assailants outside his home in Baghdad.
The security situation in Iraq is becoming increasingly uncomfortable for media representatives: on Sunday, Mohan el Dhar, editor-in-chief of the independent daily newspaper El Mashreq, was gunned down by unknown assailants outside his home in Baghdad.
The Secretary General of the Iraqi Journalists Association told SDA that El Dhar was the 190th journalist killed in Iraq since the US invasion in 2003. El Dhahr, a Shiite from the south of the country, was murdered in Jamia'a, a predominantly Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad.
The Secretary General of the Iraqi Journalists Association told SDA that El Dhar was the 190th journalist killed in Iraq since the US invasion in 2003. El Dhahr, a Shiite from the south of the country, was murdered in Jamia'a, a predominantly Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad.
