Hawar News Agency
Type of site
News
Available inArabic, English, Kurdish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
Area servedSyria
OwnerUnknown
Created byUnknown
EditorUnknown
URLhawarnews.com
AdvertisingYes
CommercialUnknown
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedAugust 2012; 11 years ago (2012-08)
Current statusActive

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]

Ownership, identity and reliability

The ownership of the Hawar News Agency is unpublished.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]

Access blocked from Turkey

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]

References

  1. ^ "Contact ANHA". Archived from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2017. Phone +96352463446 (Hasaka Syria number)
  2. ^ "Suicide bomber strikes Syrian wedding". Fox News. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2017. Kurdish news agency
  3. ^ "وكالة أنباء هاوار". Archived from the original on 20 February 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2013.((cite web)): CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ "Misdirected US strike killed 18 allied fighters in Syria". Associated Press. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  5. ^ COREY DICKSTEIN (10 May 2017). "US: Syrian forces nearing 'striking distance' of Raqqa". Stars and Stripes. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  6. ^ Associated Press (12 May 2017). "Syrian Kurdish forces to push on IS capital this summer". Fox News. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Domain hawarnews.com - whois domain information, history records database". Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  8. ^ "About Us - ANHA". Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  9. ^ "HAWAR NEWS AGENCY REPORTS FALSE FACTS ABOUT THE MILITARY PRESENCE IN MAREA". Verify-sy. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  10. ^ a b c "Turkish authorities block access to news websites". Committee to Protect Journalists. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
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