Type of site | News |
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Available in | Arabic, English, Kurdish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish |
Area served | Syria |
Owner | Unknown |
Created by | Unknown |
Editor | Unknown |
URL | hawarnews |
Advertising | Yes |
Commercial | Unknown |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | August 2012 |
Current status | Active |
Hawar News Agency (sometimes abbreviated ANHA) (Arabic: وكالة أنباء هاوار) is an news agency.[1][2] The site started as an Arabic-only news service.[3] Hawar News is linked to the Syrian Democratic Forces.[4][5][6]
The ownership of the Hawar News Agency is unpublished. The website's domain name was first registered in August 2012.[7] The site's About page says just "ANHA".[8] Pro-Syrian opposition source Verify-sy claims Hawar News is affiliated with the Democratic Union Party (PYD).[9]
The Turkish telecommunications regulator blocked access to several news agencies in July 2015.[10] It comes following the end of the Kurdish Turkish peace process[10] and was described as a counter-terrorism action, other Kurdish language or left-wing news sites based within and outside Turkey that were banned at the same time as Hawar News included Rudaw, Dicle News Agency, and Özgür Gündem.[10]