Anas Alkharboutli, photojournalist for the German news agency DPA, was killed in a bombardment near Hama on 4 December, and Mustafa al-Kurdi, correspondent for the Turkish media TRT and the news website Focus Aleppo, was shot dead by soldiers of the Syrian Army on 30 November in Aleppo, a city now under the control of the opposition armed forces.<\/strong> Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) are calling for an independent investigation into the murders of these two journalists. Targeting media workers is a war crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On the morning of 4 December, an air strike killed photojournalist and correspondent for the German news agency DPA Anas Alkharboutli<\/strong>. The 32-year-old media professional, who won the Young Reporter Trophy at the 2020 Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents, was covering clashes between opposition groups and the Syrian army in Morek, a town located some twenty kilometres north of Hama, in central Syria. Anas Alkharboutli has \u201cdocumented Syria’s civil war in a unique visual language\u201d, said DPA in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Four days earlier, on 30 November, Mustafa al-Kurdi<\/strong>, correspondent for the Turkish public media TRT and employee of the local news website Focus Aleppo, was shot dead. According to RSF\u2019s information, Syrian army soldiers opened fire on a car carrying the reporter at the entrance to the Achrafieh district of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, located in the north of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RSF and SCM are calling for independent investigations to identify and bring to justice the perpetrators of these two murders. While the opposition armed groups seized Aleppo on 29 November, the region’s civilian population has been indiscriminately targeted by the military response of Bashar al-Assad’s regime\u2019s forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n