Yara abbas biography

A Syrian TV correspondent working for a pro-government channel has been killed while covering clashes near the border with Lebanon, the country’s Information Ministry says, in the latest death of a journalist in Syria’s more than two-year-old conflict.

Yara Abbas, a prominent female war reporter for state-owned Al-Ikhbariyah TV, was attacked by rebels near the town of Qusayr in Homs province, the ministry said in a statement carried by Syrian state television.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group also reported her death on Monday, saying she “was killed by a sniper close to Dabaa airport”, north of Qusayr.

The group said other members of Abbas’s crew were wounded, without providing further details.

Syrian TV flashed a breaking news alert which read: “The ministry of information … announces that colleague Yara Abbas has been added to the ranks of the martyrs, killed by terrorists near Dabaa airport.”

The Syrian army,