Activist group and media watchdog say Iraqi journalist killed by rebels in Syria
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A Syrian activist group and an international media watchdog say opposition fighters have killed an Iraqi freelance journalist in northern Syria.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Faysal al-Jumaili was shot dead at a rebel checkpoint in the northwestern province of Idlib on Wednesday.
Soazig Dollet of the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders confirmed al-Jumaili was killed in Idlib, adding that his body was taken to Turkey in order to be sent home later. She said she doesn't know how al-Jumaili was killed.
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Dozens of journalist have been killed in Syria since the country's crisis began in March 2011.
The Observatory's chief Rami Abdurrahman and Dollet spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday.