Al Jazeera journalist shot in Syria while crossing the streets

A sniper killed an Al-Jazeera reporter in southern Syria on Friday, the pan-Arab television network said, in the second such shooting of a journalist in two days in the conflict-swept country. The killings take the death toll of reporters who have died in Syria’s 22-month conflict to at least 20, according to a count by AFP and Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, or RSF. “Mohammed Hourani was shot dead by a regime sniper in Basra al-Harir in the province of Daraa, while he was covering t