A French journalist who was injured during a mine blast in Mosul, has died from her injuries.
Sophie Pommier, a French Embassy spokesperson, says Veronique Robert died in a Paris hospital on Saturday.
The same blast killed two others Stephan Villeneuve and Iraqi Kurdish reporter Bakhtiyar Addad on Monday.
Earlier in June, the journalist and her colleagues were accompanying Iraqi special forces in Mosul, where Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has set numerous booby traps.
A fourth journalist with them, Samuel Forey, suffered light injuries.
"There are too many headstones in the cemetery of great reporters who died while performing their duties", RSF Secretary General Christophe Deloire said.
Robert, 54, was an experienced war correspondent specialising in coverage of the Middle East, Iraq in particular, said the statement from France Televisions.
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Emilie Raffoul, a producer who worked with Robert for 15 years, told the AFP news agency: "She was someone who was very determined".
They were both taken to a hospital on a U.S. military base following the explosion.
Veronique Robert was a war correspondent and had covered multiple conflicts in the Middle East, notably in Iraq, the statement said.
Her producer, Nicolas Jaillard paid tribute to her in a Facebook post saying "We were expecting less bad news this week".
Reporters without Borders (RSF), the Paris-based media rights watchdog, also saluted her.
According to the RSF tally, a total of 28 "professional and non-professional journalists" have been killed in the country since the beginning of 2014.
On Tuesday, the French president's office announced that Villeneuve would be posthumously awarded the Knight of the Legion of Honour, one of France's highest honours.
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