Two Iranian Journalists killed in Syria

 ''An Iranian journalist has been killed by foreign-backed Salafist terrorists near the Syrian capital, Damascus,'' according to an Iranian TV channel.

Ismael Haidari, a documentary filmmaker, was killed on Wednesday, only a day after another journalist and a documentary filmmaker, called Hadi Baghbani, was slain by the members of the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra in a suburb of Damascus on Tuesday, al-Aalam, Iran-run satellite Channel said.

The Iranian journalists had traveled to Syria to make a documentary about the ongoing crisis in the country.

Iranian Foreign affair spokesman in Damascus, Abbas Golrou confirmed the killing of the two journalists.

It is not the first time that a member of media comes under attack by the foreign-sponsored militants in Syria.

Press TV correspondent Maya Naser was shot and killed by a militant sniper while reporting live on September 26, 2012. He was accompanied by al-Alam correspondent Hossein Mortada, who was also injured in the attack.

 Syria's conflict began in March 2011 largely as peaceful protests against Assad's rule. It escalated into a civil war after opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent.

More than 200,000 people have been killed in the conflict, according to Syrian Human rights NGO's and 1.7 million Syrians, including one million children, have been forced to flee to neighboring countries, the United Nations says.