List of journalists killed during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) accounts for journalists killed while reporting about the war.
| Date | Name | Location | Notes | Refs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July 2021 | Spin Buldak, Kandahar | Indian photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, working for Reuters. He was killed along with a senior Afghan officer while covering Afghan Special Forces' attempt to retake an area from Taliban in Spin Buldak district of Kandahar. | [1] | ||
| Kabul | Afghan journalist, activist and political advisor. Shot dead in Kabul under suspicious circumstances (possible honour killing). | [2] | |||
| Kabul | Afghan photojournalist working for the Agence France-Presse. He was killed along with several other journalists in an ISIL suicide bombing while covering the April 2018 Kabul suicide bombings. | [3] | |||
| 5 June 2016 | Helmand Province | US photojournalist for NPR. Killed in Taliban ambush while traveling with a convey of Afghan soldiers. Initially thought to have been killed by an RPG, but further investigation showed that cause of death was severe burns. | [4] | ||
| 5 June 2016 | Zabihullah Tamanna | Helmand Province | Afghan Journalist working for NPR as an interpreter. Killed by gunfire during Taliban ambush along with another NPR journalist. | ||
| Anja Niedringhaus | Khost Province | German photojournalist working for the Associated Press. She was shot by a man wearing a police officer's uniform while covering the country's 2014 presidential election. | [5] | ||
| Nils Horner | Kabul | Reporter for Swedish Radio SR - He was killed during a talk with his Afghan translator on the street of the capital Kabul. He was war correspondent of the Swedish Radio station since 2001 and reported for them from the Afghanistan and Iraq war. | [6] | ||
| Noor Ahmad Noori | Helmand Province | Reporter for Radio Bost - Noori was tortured and killed in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province by an unknown assailant. His body was found in a plastic bag in a Lashkar Gah suburb. | [7] | ||
| Sadim Khan Bhadrzai | Urgon District | The director of Radio Mehman – Melina was killed by an unknown assailant. | [8] [9] | ||
| Ahmad Omaid Khpalwak | Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan | A soldier from the International Security Assistance Force mistakenly killed Khpalwak, who worked for Pajhwok Afghan News and the BBC News, while clearing a broadcasting building of possible enemy. | [10] | ||
| Zhari district, Kandahar Province | Killed while covering a foot patrol. The first US military journalist to die in the War in Afghanistan. | [11] | |||
| Nawa, Nawa-I-Barakzayi District, Helmand Province | The British Sunday Mirror war correspondent and his photographer were traveling with US troops when their vehicle hit an IED. Hamer died along with a US marine. His photographer survived with injuries as well as other injured soldiers. | [12] | |||
| Kandahar, Kandahar Province | The Calgary Herald reporter was killed by an IED that was struck by the vehicle carrying Lang and 4 Canadian soldiers. | [13] | |||
| Sultan Munadi | Char Dara District, Kunduz Province | An Afghan interpreter held captive with British colleague Stephen Farrell of the New York Times, Munadi was killed during the rescue attempt. | [14] | ||
| Abdul Samad Rohani | Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province | The first Pajhwok Afghan News and BBC News journalist to be killed after being abducted and found dead the next day. His captors taunted him with the fate of Ajmal Naqshbandi before killing him. | [15] | ||
| Kabul | The Norwegian journalist worked for Dagbladet and was killed in a Taliban terrorist attack on a hotel in the capital. | [16] | |||
| Zakia Zaki | Jabal Saraj, Parwan Province | Shot in her home, she was the owner of a radio station and a critic of the Taliban. | [17] | ||
| Ajmal Naqshbandi | Helmand Province | He was the fixer for kidnapped Italian-Swiss journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo of La Repubblica. His execution was the subject of a documentary film. The team driver Sayed Agha was also killed. | [18] [19] | ||
| Baghlan Province | Struwe and Fischer, who worked as freelance documentary filmmakers for Deutsche Welle, were murdered in their tent on the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the war. | [20] | |||
| Baghlan Province | Fischer and her colleague Struwe were believed to be on their way to the Buddha statues in Bamyan Province that were destroyed under the Taliban. Their killing brought to three the number of German journalists killed in the war. | ||||
| Abdul Qodus | Kandahar | The camera operator for TV Aryana was killed in the second of two blasts from a suicide bombing. | [21] | ||
| Taloqan, Kunduz Province | The Swedish TV4 camera operator was killed in a robbery of a house where several Swedish journalists were staying. | [22] | |||
| Between Jalalabad and Kabul | The Reuters and Australian photojournalist was killed in an ambush with colleague Haidari and two others. | [23] | |||
| Azizullah Haidari | Between Jalalabad and Kabul | Reuters photojournalist and native of Afghanistan who died alongside three foreign journalists in an ambush. | |||
| Between Jalalabad and Kabul | Fuentes was on assignment from El Mundo when the vehicle he was sharing with his colleagues from Reuters and the Italian press was ambushed. | ||||
| Between Jalalabad and Kabul | The Corriere della Sera reporter was traveling with colleagues from Reuters and El Mundo when they were ambushed. | ||||
| Dasht-e Qaleh | The Radio Tele Luxembourg reporter was one of five journalists who were attacked while riding a tank while reporting. Three were killed and two survived the attack. | [24] | |||
| Dasht-e Qaleh | The Radio France International was the first female journalist to die in the War in Afghanistan. Killed in the same tank attack as Billaud and Handloik. | ||||
| Dasht-e Qaleh | The German freelance journalist was one of three to die in the tank attack. Two journalists, Australian Paul McGeough and French Véronique Reyberotte, survived. |