A Syrian journalist and documentary filmmaker who worked to expose atrocities by the self-proclaimed Islamic State has been killed in Turkey. Naji Jerf worked with the citizen journalist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently. In a statement, the group said Jerf was “assassinated” with a silencer-equipped pistol in a Turkish town near the Syrian border. He was due to fly with his family the next day to seek asylum in France.