A Syrian reporter for an official radio station and a local television channel was killed on Tuesday by fire of terrorist gunmen outside the capital.

A Syrian reporter for an official radio station and a local television channel was killed on Tuesday by fire of terrorist gunmen outside the capital, state media said.

"Our colleague Batoul Moukhlis Al-Warar, a presenter on Nur al-Sham channel and Damascus radio, has been killed and others wounded in terrorist mortar fire on Dahiyet Al-Assad in Harasta" region, state television said in a breaking news alert.

Damascus radio is an official station, and Nur al-Sham is a religious television channel broadcasting inside Syria.

The opposition UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the journalist was killed in shelling of the Dahiyet al-Assad area just outside the terrorist-controlled town of Harasta.

Harasta lies in Eastern Ghouta, and the Observatory said the Syrian forces were shelling it on Tuesday morning.

At least 48 journalists have been killed in the country since the violent unrest erupted in Syria in mid-March 2011, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Many journalists have also been detained, with some kidnapped and later killed by the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri group.