Following is a chronology of journalist deaths in the war:

April 8

-- Reuters cameramen Taras Protsyuk, 35, dies after a US tank fires on a Baghdad hotel used as a base by the foreign media. A journalist with Spanish television Telecinco and three other Reuters journalists are injured in the explosion.

-- Tareq Ayub, a 34-year-old correspondent for Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television, dies following a missile strike on the station's Baghdad offices. Al-Jazeera accuses the US military of deliberately targeting its facilities.

April 7

-- Christian Liebig, a correspondent with Germany weekly Focus, and Julio Anguita Parrado from Spanish daily El Mundo are killed after a missile attack on a US operations centre.

April 6

-- US NBC television journalist David Bloom, 39, "embedded" with US troops in Iraq dies near Baghdad, apparently of natural causes.

-- Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, a 25-year-old Kurdish translator working with the BBC, dies after a US plane bombs a Kurdish-US convoy in northern Iraq in a "friendly-fire" attack.

April 4

-- Washington Post editorial columnist Michael Kelly is killed when the vehicle in which he is travelling with US troops plunges into a canal while evading Iraqi fire on the approach to Baghdad's main airport.

April 2

-- Kaveh Golestan, 52, a prize-winning Iranian photographer working as a cameraman with the BBC, dies when he steps out of his car onto a landmine in Kifri, in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.

March 30

-- Gaby Rado, 48, covering the war for British television network ITV, is killed when he falls from the roof of the Abu Sanaa hotel in Sulaymaniya, in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. The circumstances of his death are not known.

March 22

-- Australian cameraman Paul Moran, 39, on assignment for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is killed in a suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi town of Khurmal, under Kurdish control.

-- ITN correspondent Terry Lloyd, 50, is believed to have been killed by US-British fire near Basra. Lloyd's French cameraman 43-year-old Fred Nerac and Lebanese interpreter Hussein Osman are still missing.

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