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Latika Bourke

Latika Bourke is a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age based in London. She has previously worked for Fairfax Media, the ABC and 2UE in Canberra. Latika won the Walkley Award for Young Australian Journalist of the Year in 2010.

Khaled Sharrouf has reportedly been killed in an air strike while he was driving.

Global coalition defends deaths of children of jihadist

Civilian casualties, including the child fighters of the Australian jihadist Khaled Sharrouf, are part of the "price of the war," despite efforts to minimise their deaths, says the spokesperson for the global coalition fighting Islamic State.