State Dept Estimates Almost 2 Years for FOIA Answers on American Reporter Murdered in Syria WarBy Baran Hines Serena Shim was an American citizen and a reporter for Irans Press TV who spent 3 years investigating Turkeys role in the Syrian proxy war including aid to Al Qaeda groups and the Islamic State. She was killed on October 19, 2014 near the Turkey-Syria border while reporting on the battle of Kobani, which received significant coverage from international news organizations. Two days before her death, Shim reported live on Press TVs international broadcast that Turkish intelligence services, Mill stihbarat Tekilat (MT) accused her of being a spy, and they were tracking her to arrest her for questioning. Shim also reported that she was hiring a lawyer to represent her and that she intended to answer the intelligence agencys questions. Serena Shim also reported during the October 17 broadcast that she had evidence of Islamic State terrorists receiving help in the form of vehicles with the logo of the United Nations World Food Program, allowing the terrorists to cross the Turkey-Syria border without problems. On October 19, the Turkish government then reported she was killed in a car crash which has been called suspicious by both journalists and government officials. WTF NEWS Shim and Irish were taken to two different hospitals separated by more than 25 miles after the alleged accident. Shim was first reported dead at the scene but eventually was said to die of heart failure after a heart attack almost an hour later. Her family suspects she was taken to a secret military facility nearby before going to the hospital. Shim had published multiple reports on Turkish military not fighting Al Qaeda and ISIS groups, while in many cases, allowing the terrorists to operate border crossings with Syria which were used to transport weapons and fighters. In a 2013 report called Turkeys Pivotal Role in Syrias Insurgency, Shim revealed that terrorist groups even had their own passport stamp for border crossings they controlled. She also published evidence that Al Qaeda groups were using refugee camps on the Turkey-Syria border to smuggle weapons and give fighters a home base. For more information, read our October 2015 report and watch the trailer for the upcoming documentary. Baran Hines writes for selfnewsPost.com. He is the founder of WTFRLY.com, where you can read more of his work. This article may be reposted in part or in full with author attribution and source link. So very sad, but the WTF was she doing there, seriously? Exactly. Stay home and stay alive. Its ridiculous to go to those countries. Let them sort their own crap out without us. By reporting on the situation there and giving her life, what was achieved? I could never understand the mentality of men who do this sort of thing but the women like her are absolutely insane! Do they see themselves as Hemingwayesque adventurers or martyrs for the gods of journalism? Their psychiatrists dont even know! 