The media activist Thaa’ir Shams al-Din al-‘Ajlani was killed as he covered clashes taking place in the district of Jobar. Al-’Ajlani worked with a number of media channels supportive of the regime, including “Sham FM”, the “Watan” newspaper owned by Rami Makhlouf, and the Lebanese “LBC” channel. He is also head of the media department in the “National Defence Centre” in Damascus.