Kabul - Afghanistan is one of the countries with more journalists assassinated in 2016 and 2017, according to a report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), published here on Friday.

In this country, which has been affected by a long-standing war accentuated by the invasion of the United States and its allies from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 11 reporters were killed in 2017 and was only second to Mexico, with 13 deaths.

Meanwhile, in 2016, the two countries reported the assassinations of 13 journalists each, according to UNESCO.

The report noted that as in the previous period, television journalists had the highest number of victims.

Afghanistan reported on the creation of a special committee composed of security agencies and the national federation of journalists under the auspices of the Ministry of Information to assess the possibility of prosecuting cases of violence against journalists in Afghanistan, according to the report, quoted by Tolo News.