Iraqi journalist killed in drive-by shooting

An Iraqi journalist was killed on Friday in a drive-by shooting in the northern city of Kirkuk, police said.

Diyar Abbas, a stringer for independent news agency Aien, was shot by armed men in a car as he left the office of a Kirkuk artists' association on Friday evening. Abbas, a Kurd, was 28. At least 135 journalists have been killed in the line of duty in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003. (Reuters)