ALEPPO, Syria
Opposition militant group, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) broke in to the Anadolu Agency (AA) office in Syria's northern province of Aleppo on Tuesday, seizeing technical equipment.
The AA team in Aleppo was unaffected by the incident. The group seized satelite equipment and two vehicles.
The ISIL were mounting an attack in Sheikh Najjar neighbourhood of Aleppo.
AA teams in Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Greece and Morocco have encountered physical violence since 2012.
Syria remains the most dangerous place in the world to work for journalists; according to media freedom watchdog, Reporters without Borders (RSF), out of the 71 journalists killed last year over half of them, 45, were in Syria.
RSF also says at least 18 foreign journalists and 22 Syrian [journalists] are currently abducted or missing.
The ISIL militants previously kidnapped several local correspondents and journalists in Syria including Turkish photo-journalist, Bunyamin Aygun of the Turkish daily Milliyet, who was released on January 5 by an armed anti-Assad regime group linked with the Syrian Islamic Front.
There have been fierce clashes in Aleppo over the last few months between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Syrian Islamic Front.
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