Speaking on the sidelines of the annual Bayeux-Calvados awards for war correspondents in northwestern France, where three of seven prizes went to coverage of the conflict in Syria, journalists used to danger zones said reporting on areas overrun by jihadists had become near-impossible.
„We don‘t know what is going on in Fallujah, in Ramadi, in Mosul. These are big (Iraqi) cities,“ said Jean-Pierre Perrin, a reporter for Liberation daily.
„It‘s a war without witnesses.“