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RFE/RL: Russia’s RT network says its journalist killed in Syria

Published July 30, 2017 at 5:23 pm

Smoke billows out from Raqa following a coalition air strike on July 28. The Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, has ousted Islamic State (IS) group jihadists from half of their Syrian bastion Raqa, where the SDF have been fighting for several months to capture the northern city which has become infamous as the Syrian heart of IS's so-called "caliphate."

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Russia’s state-funded international network RT says one of its correspondents has been killed in shelling by Islamic State (IS) forces in Syria.

The network said on July 30 that Khaled Alkhateb, 25, was killed while reporting earlier that day on the Syrian Army’s operations against IS around the town of Sukhna, in the eastern part of the Homs Province.