“In 2012, shortly after my friend and colleague #MarieColvin was killed in Homs, #Syria, I met with the now-disgraced Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen. Rød-Larsen was a renowned fixer who had negotiated the 1993 Oslo accords.

Colvin had been killed by government shelling on 22 February 2012. But the fighting between Bashar al-Assad’s government forces and the Free Syrian Army was so fierce that retrieving her corpse was nearly impossible.”

#journalism / #news / #reporting <https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/26/friend-killed-reporting-marie-colvin>