The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad targeted and killed US reporter Marie Colvin in February 2012 to stop her from covering government atrocities, according to a lawsuit filed in US court on Saturday.
The suit alleges that acting "with premeditation, Syrian officials deliberately killed Marie Colvin by launching a targeted rocket attack" against the makeshift broadcast studio in Homs where Colvin and other reporters were based.
The lawsuit is based on information from captured government documents and defectors. It names several Syrian officials including Assad's brother Maher.
(AFP)