FILE - In this April 12, 2010 file photo, Anthony Shadid, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting with The Washington Post, poses for a portrait at the Watson Institute for International Studies, on the campus of Brown University, in Providence, R.I. The New York Times said Shadid died Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, apparently of an asthma attack, while on assignment in Syria. He was 43. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

New York Times correspondent dies in Syria

Death » Anthony Shadid was one of four reporters detained in Libya last year.

The Associated Press

First Published Feb 16 2012 08:46 pm • Last Updated Feb 16 2012 11:06 pm

New York • New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Iraq, died Thursday in eastern Syria while on a reporting assignment.

The cause of his death apparently was an asthma attack, the Times said. Times photographer Tyler Hicks was with him and carried his body to Turkey, it said.

Shadid, a 43-year-old American of Lebanese descent, had a wife and two daughters. He had worked previously for The Associated Press, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. He won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 2004 and 2010 for his Iraq coverage.

Shadid had been reporting in Syria for a week, gathering information on the resistance to the Syrian government, the Times said.

The exact circumstances and location of his death were unclear, it said.

Shadid, long known for covering wars and other conflicts in the Middle East, was among four reporters detained for six days by Libyan forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi last March.

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