Sniper Kills Syrian TV Correspondent Yara Abbas In Homs

A sniper has killed a well-known Syrian TV correspondent who worked for a pro-government television channel, Reuters reports. The correspondent was killed near the military air base Debaa in Homs province.

Yara Abbas, a reporter for the al-Ikhbariya television news channel, was targeted by "terrorists," Syria TV said, referencing a term used by Assad supporters to describe the rebels.

Yara Abbas may have been seen by rebels as loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, who is currently in a civil war to maintain power, with rebels fighting to oust him.

According to Reuters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said several of her television team were also wounded in the sniper attack. The organization is a pro-opposition monitoring group.

Abbas frequently reported beside Assad's forces and from the frontlines of Syria's ongoing conflict that began in March 2011. Most recently, she was covering clashes near the border in Lebanon, The Independent reports.

Last September, an Iranian television reporter was killed on-air in a shocking sniper strike by Syrian rebels in Damascus, RT News reports. Maya Nasser was a 33-year-old Syrian national who also reported on the frontlines of the war.

According to The Independent, Syria's civil war has claimed more than 70,000 lives and displaced more than one million people.