TIMELINE-Journalists killed in Iraq

(Reuters) - An Iraqi cameraman working for the Associated Press was shot and killed in Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. news organisation said.

Iraq is the deadliest conflict in 25 years for journalists. Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has put the total death toll of journalists and media assistants in Iraq at 177, while another independent watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has said 104 journalists have been killed. The figures do not include the latest deaths.

Following is a chronology of those reported killed in the past six months.

December 4 - Gunmen shoot dead radio journalist Nabil al-Dulaimi.

December 12 - Gunmen shoot dead Aswan Lutfalla, a cameraman working for Associated Press Television News in Mosul.

February 11, 2007 - Hussein al-Joubouri, editor of the daily newspaper al-Safir, is fatally wounded in an attack at his Baghdad home.

March 3 - Jamal Riyah al-Zoubaidi is found dead in southeast Baghdad. He went missing after leaving the offices of his newspaper, al-Safir.

March 4 - Mohan Hussein al-Dhahr, editor of the daily al-Mishrak, is killed in a botched kidnap in the east of Baghdad.

March 19 - The body of Hamid al-Duleimi, producer of TV channel al-Nahrain, is found in the Baghdad morgue, two days after he was abducted.