dpa mourns the death of Anas Alkharboutli

dpa mourns the death of Anas Alkharboutli

Our photographer Anas Alkharboutli, who documented the civil war in Syria in a unique visual language, has been killed in an airstrike near the Syrian city of Hama. Anas was just 32 years old.The hope for a better future lives on in his photography.

Anas Alkharboutli joined dpa as a photographer in the Middle East in 2017. He reported primarily from the Syrian civil war zone. In the past few days, his pictures have been seen around the world, as Anas was reporting on the new flare-up of the ci