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Pulitzer-Winning Reuters Photographer, Danish Siddiqui, Killed In Taliban-Afghan Crossfire By Pablo Luna   /   Friday, 16 Jul 2021 07:41PM A photo-journalist for Reuters, Danish Siddiqui, has been killed in a crossfire between Afghan and Taliban forces at an Afghanistan town near the Pakistan border on Friday, CNN reported. Siddiqui, a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography recipient, joined Reuters in 2010. He has covered war and refugees situations in Myanmar, Iraq, Hong Kong, India, and recently Afghanistan. Earlier on Friday, before his reported death, Si...

SPIN BOLDAK: Reuters journalist Danish Siddiqui was killed on Friday while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters near Spin Boldak, an Afghan commander said. Afghan special forces had been fighting to retake the main market area of Spin Boldak when Siddiqui and a senior Afghan officer were killed in what they described as Taliban crossfire, the official said. Siddiqui had been embedded as a journalist since earlier this week with Afghan special forces based in the southern province of Kandahar and had been reporting on fighting between Afghan commandos and Taliba...

The latest chapter in the saga is a new report from The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser that said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Milley feared former President Trump Glasser said her reporting on Milley came as part of a book about Trump she and her husband, New York Times reporter Peter Baker, are working on that’s due to come out next year. In her telling, the subject of Iran was repeatedly raised at White House meetings with Trump after his election loss, and Milley repeatedly argued against strikes. “If you do this, you’re gonna have a f------ war,” Milley would say, acco...

Danish Siddiqui / Reuters Originally published on July 16, 2021 4:25 pm Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Danish Siddiqui, who worked for the Reuters news agency based out of India, was killed Friday while on assignment in southern Afghanistan after coming under fire by Taliban militiamen. Siddiqui, who was 38 years old, had been embedded with Afghan special forces in southern Kandahar province when he was killed along with a senior Afghan officer, Reuters reports. Candles are placed by journalists next to portraits of Danish Siddiqui as a tribute in Kolkata, India, on Friday, after t...

endIndex: (CNN) — Danish Siddiqui, a Reuters photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the violence faced by Rohingya refugees, has been killed in clashes near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Siddiqui was the news agency's chief photographer in India, based in Mumbai. Reuters reported Siddiqui's death on Friday, citing an Afghan commander who said he had been killed while covering fighting between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters. The commander said that Afghan special forces had been fighting to retake a market area near a border crossing with Pakistan when Siddiqui and a seni...