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Ayman al-Sahili, a Reuters cameraman, receives first aid after he was shot in the leg by a sniper loyal to Syrian President Bashar el-Assad while filming on the front line in Syria's north city of Aleppo on Dec. 31.

By Reuters

A Reuters television cameraman was shot in the leg and wounded while filming on the front line in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Monday.

Ayman al-Sahili, a Libyan citizen working as part of a Reuters multi-media reporting team, was hit by a rifle bullet fired from a distance. He was treated in Syria and then driven across the border to Turkey. His injury was not life-threatening.

The ambulance transporting Sahili to Turkey encountered an air strike in Aleppo and maneuvered into an alley until it was safe to continue the journey.

Syria was by far the most dangerous country for journalists in 2012, with 28 killed there during the year according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a watchdog group. Read the full story.

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Ayman al-Sahili is carried on a stretcher after he was wounded by a sniper loyal to Syrian President Bashar el-Assad in Syria's north city of Aleppo on Dec. 31.

Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters

Ayman al-Sahili is carried away in Syria's north city of Aleppo on Dec. 31.

Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters

A Free Syrian Army fighter pulls a boy off the street as a sniper fires during fighting with forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar el-Assad in Aleppo city on Dec. 31.

Previously on PhotoBlog:

• Israeli airstrike hits media building in Gaza, killing leading militant
• Photographers join together to raise money for a fallen colleague
• Three photojournalists killed as Mexico drug cartels target media
• Colleagues mourn TV cameraman shot dead on Lebanon-Syria border
• The work of photographer Remi Ochlik, killed in Syria
• Attacks in Syria kill several, including French journalist

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A look back at the violence that has overtaken the country

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Pakistani journalists shout slogans during a protest against the killng of their colleague Syed Saleem Shahzad, in Hyderabad, Pakistan, onJune 1, 2011. The Pakistani journalist working for the Italian news agency Adnkronos International has been found dead, media reported on May 31. Syed Saleem Shahzad went missing on May 29 after leaving his house in an upmarket area of the capital Islamabad, to take part in a television talk show.

The Committee to Protect Journalists have released their report for 2011 which chronicles the attacks on journalists worldwide. They report that at least 43 journalists were killed including seven dead in Pakistan making it the deadliest country to work in as a journalist.

From the CPJ report:

Photojournalists suffered particularly heavy losses in 2011. Photographers and camera operators constituted about 40 percent of the overall death toll, about double the proportion CPJ has documented since it began keeping detailed fatality records in 1992. Among those killed was Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, a photographer for European Pressphoto Agency who was struck by a tear gas canister fired by security forces trying to quell a massive January protest that led to the ouster of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

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A 2008 photo shows EPA photographer Lucas Dolega on assignment in North Kivu, near the provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Franco-German photographer was covering the Tunisian uprising for the european pressphoto agency epa when he was seriously injured on Jan. 14 after police fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators in Tunis. Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, 32, was declared clinically dead by staff of the Rabta hospital in Tunis early morning Jan. 16, 2011

The full list of those killed along with their profiles can be found here in the full Committee to Protect Journalists 2011 report.

 Related links: 

• Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington are killed and two others injured in rocket attack in Misrata
• This New Yorker story on Syed Saleem Shahzad who Pakistani intelligence officials warned to curb his reporting, which revealed links between the military and Al Qaeda. He was found dead on May 30.
• Journalists honored for risking lives to tell the story
• View the full 2011 Committee to Protect Journalists report here

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Stakes are rising in a perilous way for journalists covering protests in Cairo.

There have been widespread reports of journalists targeted, intimidated, detained and stripped of their gear during the 10th day of protests between pro- and anti-government groups.

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Injured Associated Press photographer Khalil Hanna retreats during clashes between anti-government demonstrators and their pro-government opponents in Cairo's Tahrir square on Thursday.

Photographers reported a string of attacks by Mubarak supporters near Tahrir Square, the scene of battles between supporters of Mubarak and protesters demanding he step down after nearly 30 years in power.

The Washington Post reported that its bureau chief and a photographer were among around two dozen journalists arrested by the interior ministry.

"We have heard from multiple witnesses that Leila Fadel, our Cairo bureau chief, and Linda Davidson, a photographer, were among two dozen journalists arrested this morning by the Egyptian Interior Ministry," the newspaper said on its website.

Sebastian Scheiner / AP

Press photographers, including Associated Press photographer Khalil Hamra, left, take cover as they work during clashes in Cairo on Thursday, Feb. 3. Another day of heavy gunfire and clashes erupted around dusk in Tahrir Square, while new looting and arson spread around the capital. Gangs of thugs supporting President Hosni Mubarak attacked reporters, foreigners, and human rights workers while the army rounded up foreign journalists.

Associated Press reporter Hadeel Al-Shalchi said in a Twitter message Thursday that two New York Times journalists had been arrested. He earlier issued a warning, saying "Journos be careful: they are out for us today." (Read more...)

The common thread in all reports out of Cairo suggest a pervasive tension between demonstrators and working journalists, which can be heard in a video posted after CNN's Anderson Cooper was attacked yesterday.

"The government has been sowing hatred among the people of Egypt against journalists," said David Degner, an American freelance photojouranlist who has lived in Cairo the past two years.

He knows of at least five fellow journalists who have been beaten, had cameras stolen, or have had enough and just want to go home. Last night a journalist was beaten up and had his cameras stolen outside the door to Degner's apartment in downtown Cairo.

Despite the hazards, he continues to photograph. "Calls from friends in trouble are more concerning than the actual protests or the rocks falling around me.”

Khalil Hamra / AP

Two foreign photographers take cover as they work to photograph clashes between protesters in downtown Cairo on Thursday, Feb. 3.

The Guardian reported that a Reuters television crew was beaten up early today close to Tahrir Square while filming a piece about shops and banks being forced to shut during the clashes.

If you're taking pictures in Cairo, let us know and upload them here. If you're seeing other notable images from events there, you can public message @msnbc_pictures on Twitter.

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