Mohamad Ali started working with Press TV in 2009. In 2011, an unprecedented war on his country started. It did not take long until demonstrations turned violent, and challenges started for him. Reporting on car bomb attacks was terrifying at first. In life, he had never seen a dead person. But back then, every week, he had to cope with walking among tens of dead bodies of the victims of terrorist attacks. The main challenge was to separate emotions, such as fear and sadness, from professionally performing the job. Terrorists started controlling area after the other sparking the start of street to street clashes, and so many lies on who controls what on mainstream media. Here, a responsibility aroused.

He never denied he was afraid in the beginning to risk his life on frontlines; but, he got used to the adrenaline rush and headed to every warzone throughout the Syrian crisis. The job was risky and difficult for him as a journalist in the most dangerous country for reporters on earth. He survived many near-death experiences as terrorists targeted him and his team with mortars, rockets and sniper guns throughout 10 years of war coverage.

He once entered a terrorist militant-controlled quarter in Damascus named Qadam. That was on August 19, 2014, as the Syrian government was engaged in negotiations with militants with the aim of reaching reconciliation in that area. As a gesture of its good intentions, the Syrian government allowed the families of the militants who were living in government-controlled Damascus to enter Qadam for three hours so that the militants can see their families. He and his cameraman got into the bus to Qadam, along with the militants’ families.

Maybe, the most difficult and challenging report was from Eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside on March 11 2018, as he survived three terrorist attacks in one day: two sniper gun attacks and a mortar one. The breathtaking moments were filmed by him on his phone. In that day, he also had to go live completely lying down on a rooftop. He was covering the Syrian army’s offensive to secure Eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside.