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KABUL, Afghanistan — A British journalist embedded with an American unit in Helmand Province was killed along with a Marine when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, the British Defense Ministry reported Sunday. It was the second time in two weeks that a Western journalist had been killed on an embedded assignment, underscoring the increased risk on the roads as military operations intensify in Afghanistan
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The violent news out of Afghanistan on Wednesday was as tragic as it was surprising. A suicide bomber somehow managed to slip into a tightly secured military base in Khost Province and set off his explosives, killing at least six Americans, some of whom were C.I.A. operatives.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least two people were killed and 18 were injured when a suicide bomber attacked the press club in the restive northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday, officials said.
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OTTAWA — Amanda Lindhout was a waitress at an Irish pub in Calgary, Alberta, with a dream of becoming a journalist. But Ms. Lindhout, who has no formal journalistic training, did not join the ranks of citizen journalists who blog about their communities. Instead, she used her earnings from the bar to finance reporting trips to several of the world’s most dangerous war zones. Photo by the Canadian Press.
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DANIEL Berehulak was on his fourth consecutive day trip to Peshawar last Friday - a dangerous Pakistani city imploding from rolling terror attacks - when an email from a journalist colleague in India stopped him in his tracks.
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