The ten-year Iraq War cost the lives of 150 journalists and 54 media support workers, according to data compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Most (92) were murdered in targeted killings, rather than combat. Many of them were killed because of their affiliation with the U.S. or western press. Nobody was prosecuted for the killing of a reporter, according to CPJ, which reports the current government of Iraq has shown no interest in investigating the murders.
Other victims died via airstrikes, checkpoint shootings, suicide bombings, sniper fire, or the detonation of improvised explosive devices.
Eighty-five percent of the journalists were Iraqis, while only one of the support workers was a non-Iraqi.
CPJ, founded in 1981, reported the deaths of 58 journalists in Algeria's civil war ('93 to '96), 54 victims in the civil strife that gripped Columbia beginning in '86, and 36 deaths in the Balkans chaos from '91 to '95.
It cites research from the Freedom Forum, free press organization, that counted 68 journalists killed in WWII and 66 killed in Vietnam from '55 to '75.
CPJ reports that 21 journalists have died in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion of 2001.
Thirty-five reporters have died in the Syrian civil war.
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