CHRONOLOGY-Journalists killed in Iraq

(Reuters) - Journalists in Iraq are attacked by death squads and insurgents intent on silencing their voices, media watch groups say.

The Vienna-based International Press Institute said in April that 46 journalists were killed last year in Iraq, of whom 44 were Iraqis. Overall, more than 100 journalists, 80 of them Iraqi, have been killed in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in 2003.

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

September 12, 2006 - Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri, a journalist and representative of the Iraqi Journalists' Syndicate for the eastern province of Diyala, is killed north of Baghdad.

September 13 - Iraqi police report finding the body of Safaa Ismail Inad, a journalist at al-Watan newspaper, near Sadr City.

September 18 - Gunmen in Ramadi kill Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbuli, who worked for the Sunni-run Baghdad TV, a satellite channel owned by the Iraqi Islamic Party.

November 3 - Baghdad police find the body of freelance journalist Abdul Majeed Ismael Khalil. He was abducted on October 18.

November 3 - Television journalist Ahmed Rasheed is killed in Baghdad's Sunni district of Adhamiya.

November 13 - Gunmen in Mosul kill Mohammed al-Ban, a cameraman for al-Sharqiya television, who also worked for local newspaper Al Masar.