Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict, died of an apparent asthma attack while on a reporting assignment in eastern Syria. He was 43.
Tyler Hicks, a New York Times photographer who was with Shadid, carried his body across the border to Turkey. - The New York Times

Photo: Shadid interviewing residents in Cairo last February. (Ed Ou for The New York Times)

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