Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reported that 715 people working at media organizations were killed in the civil war, now in its 12th year. Documenting rights violations against civilians in Syria, SNHR published a report on the occasion of May 3, World Press Freedom Day. 

According to the report, a total of 715 people, including 6 women and 9 foreigners working in the media, have been killed since March 2011, when the civil war began. Bashar al-Assad's regime and foreign terrorist groups supported by Iran killed a total of 553 media workers, including 5 foreigners and 1 woman, during this period. 

Meanwhile, 24 representatives of the press lost their lives in airstrikes by Russia, which is a supporter of the Assad regime. During the civil war, the terrorist organization DAESH killed a total of 64 press workers, 3 of them foreigners and 2 women. 

PKK/YPG terrorists killed 4 members of the press, while military opponents and armed groups against the regime killed 34 press workers, 3 of them women. In the attacks of the international coalition against Daesh, one press worker lost his life, while 35 press workers, among them a foreigner, were killed by unidentified groups, reports Anadolu Agency. 

In the report, which states that 1,309 people working in the media field have been arrested since the beginning of the civil war in Syria, it is emphasized that no news could be obtained from a total of 471 members of the press, 9 of whom were women and 17 were men. foreigner It also calls for an end to attacks on media workers and the release of those arrested. 

With the start of the civil war in Syria, 4 media workers working for Anadolu and providing information and visual services lost their lives as a result of attacks by different parties. Anadolu journalist Salih Mahmud Leyla lost his life in a terrorist attack carried out by Daesh with a car bomb in 2015. 

Wesim al-Adil, a freelance journalist who provided photography services for Anadolu in northwestern Syria's Idlib province, died on September 23, 2015, when shrapnel hit his body in a Russian warplane strike in the city of Binin. 

Anadolu freelance journalist Majid Dirani died on February 19, 2016, when shrapnel hit his body during gunfire from a tank while trying to capture the moment of an attack by Assad forces in the Dareyya neighborhood of the capital Damascus. . Enes Diyab, 22, who was also a freelance journalist for Anadolu in Syria, died on July 21, 2019, while filming in Idlib an airstrike by Russia, a supporter of the Assad regime.