http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/world/middleeast/libya-jeroen-oerlemans-photojournalist.html 2016-10-03 03:31:47 Jeroen Oerlemans, Dutch Journalist, Is Killed by ISIS Sniper in Libya Mr. Oerlemans, who had once been taken hostage by Islamist extremists in Syria, was killed while covering the front line of a battle in Surt. === CAIRO — A prominent Dutch photojournalist who had once been taken hostage by Islamist extremists in Syria was fatally shot on Sunday by an Islamic State sniper in the coastal city of The photojournalist, Mr. Oerlemans’s death was a painful reminder of the dangers that journalists face while covering armed conflicts. Mr. Oerlemans, 46, left behind three children and a girlfriend, a colleague, Ruth Vandewalle, said. Dutch officials, journalists and Libya analysts paid tribute to him on social media soon after word of his death spread. “Thank you for shining your light on the misery of others,” Yvettev Eechoud, the director of European and international affairs at the Netherlands’ Ministry of Economic Affairs, “Your photographs of Mr. Oerlemans, whose work was most recently featured in the Dutch newspaper About 50 members of the Islamic State, also known as Libya has descended into chaos since its longtime ruler, Col. The Surt “These guys have nothing left here, so they are fighting hard. They are even making their wounded fight,” Mr. Eissa said. “We find medical equipment on them and bandages all the time. The more they lose, the harder they fight.”