Syria - Areas controlled by Islamic State are news “black holes”

Reporters without borders

Islamic State's Jihadi militants are imposing a news and information dictatorship in the areas they dominate in Iraq and Syria. Local and foreign journalists are no longer able to work properly and crimes of violence against them are on the increase. What with news media being closed, censored or self-censored and journalists being threatened, hunted down, arrested and sometimes murdered, the media landscape is both Iraq and Syria is now desolate. Journalists are now forced to cover events (...)

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