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Shifa Gardi
Rudaw TV
Iraq
Rudaw TV reporter Shifa Gardi was pursuing a story about a mass grave containing people killed by the Islamic State terrorist group in Mosul, Iraq, when a roadside bomb exploded, killing her and five Iraqi soldiers. Gardi, also known as Shifa Zikri Ibrahim, was the anchor of a daily program called Focus Mosul that reported on the war. She was known as a role model and leader in Kurdish news reporting who had broken barriers as her station's lead reporter on the military campaign to push the Islamic State out of Iraq. Gardi was 30. To mark the first anniversary of her death, a statue called The Microphone of Shifa was unveiled outside Rudaw Media Network headquarters in Erbil. In 2017, eight journalists were killed in Iraq, which tied with Syria as the deadliest countries for reporting the news. |