According to media reports, the 45-year-old local reporter was fatally shot by a sniper while covering clashes between militants linked to Islamic State and various local factions incorporated into the Syrian army, supported by a formerly Russian-backed brigade in the city of Daraa, in southern Syria.
Reports added that Al Saidi was well known for his reporting in Daraa province, regarded as the cradle of the Syrian revolution. He began working as a journalist during the initial “Arab Spring” protests in Syria in 2011, initially as a reporter for the Syrian satellite TV channel Al-Jisr and later as its Daraa bureau chief. He later had freelanced for various local media outlets including Television Syria and the Shahid Media Foundation.