Iraq - Confusion about Iraqi journalist's reported death in Mosul

Reporters without borders

Contradictory information has been circulating since 13 October about Mohanad Al-Aqidi, an Iraqi journalist thought to be held by the Jihadi group Islamic State in Mosul (in Nineveh province). Many local media reported on 13 October that Islamic State had killed him. But other sources insisted the next day that he was still alive. The reports of Mohanad Al-Aqidi's death spread very rapidly in Iraq on 13 October. Several sources in Baghdad and Mosul confirmed his death to Reporters Without (...)

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