New York Times correspondent Shadid dies in Syria
New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of Iraq and was detained in Libya for almost a week last year, died Thursday in eastern Syria while on a reporting assignment.
NEW YORK -New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose dispatches captured untold stories from Baghdad under ``shock and awe'' bombing to Libya wracked by civil war, died Thursday of an apparent asthma attack in Syria while reporting on the uprising against its president.