BBC Mourns Its Correspondent in Syria, Assaf Aboud

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) mourned its correspondent Assaf Aboud in Damascus, who had a journalism career spanning nearly four decades. The BBC World Service expressed its deep sorrow at the announcement of the death of BBC News Arabic correspondent Assaf Aboud, who passed away this morning surrounded by his family after a period of illness. The organization praised Aboud's reports, which were characterized by significant courage and integrity in covering news and stories from across Syria, particularly in the past ten years. It added that Aboud's colleagues within the organization and among the Arab audience in the Middle East will miss him.