A new report by a New York-based organization has
revealed that sixty-nine journalists were killed around the world on the job in
2015. Twenty-eight of them were slain by Islamic militant groups, including
al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, according to the Committee to Protect
Journalists.
Those killed by Islamic extremist groups this year
included eight journalists killed in an attack in Paris in January at the
office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had published caricatures of
the Prophet Muhammad. The group al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claimed
responsibility for the attack in which two gunmen massacred 12 people. They
said it was in “revenge for the prophet.”
In October, two Syrian journalists, Fares Hamadi and
Ibrahim Abd al-Qader were killed by Islamic State militants.
