New York Times: Correspondent in Syria dies
Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for the U.S. newspaper *The New York Times*, has been killed in eastern Syria.
The 43-year-old American with Lebanese roots apparently died of an asthma attack on Thursday, the New York Times reported. According to the newspaper, Shadid was in Syria to report on the resistance against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Shadid was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Iraq war, in 2004 and 2010. Last March, he was arrested in Libya by Muammar al-Gaddafi's troops and held for six days. (SDA/DAPD)
