There are plenty of jobs out there that, when most of us hear about the risks to life and limb that they entail, we think “you’d have to be nuts to do that sort of thing.” They even make TV shows of some of the more dramatic dangerous professions, like Deadliest Catch.
But one job that you may not come to mind for everyone is being a journalist. It makes sense, considering journalists biggest health risk is carpal tunnel from typing up too much copy. But for those brave – and perhaps reckless – journalists who choose to report from war zones, their profession can place them firmly in the cross-hairs of some very dangerous people…
Danger Zone
In 2014, one of the deadliest places in the world to be was Syria. For years, the country had been embroiled in a civil war fought between the Russian-backed Bashar al-Assad and his government, the Free Syrian Army, ISIS, and the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria. The kindest way to describe the situation was “politically complex.” To describe it in more visceral terms, the term ‘fubar’ comes to mind.
