Marie Colvin
ماري كولفان
Also known as: Marie Catherine Colvin
Journeys
Marie Colvin: Killed in Homs for Telling the Truth
Marie Colvin's death was not collateral damage — investigators confirmed the Syrian army tracked foreign journalists and ordered a targeted strike on the media center.
The Last Dispatch from Baba Amr — Marie Colvin's Final Witness
Three decades of war journalism culminating in Baba Amr, Homs — Marie Colvin filed her final report hours before Syrian government shelling killed her, describing children dying in a makeshift clinic under constant bombardment.
The Last Report from Baba Amr
Marie Colvin entered besieged Homs to give a voice to civilians trapped under bombardment. Her final broadcast — describing dying children and the human cost of Assad's siege — was delivered hours before she was killed in a strike a US court later ruled was deliberate targeting.
Biography
Marie Colvin was an American war correspondent for The Sunday Times of London, killed on February 22, 2012 in Baba Amr, Homs, when Syrian Army artillery deliberately targeted the improvised media center where she and other journalists were sheltering. Born in 1956 in New York, she covered nearly every major conflict of the late 20th and early 21st century, losing her left eye to an RPG fragment in Sri Lanka in 2001. The night before her death she appeared on CNN and BBC describing 'shells falling on starving, freezing civilians.' A 2026 RSF investigation confirmed the attack was premeditated. A French court issued arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad and six other officials in 2025 for her killing.