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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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class="infobox-data">News</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data">Arabic, English<sup id="cite_ref-BadranDeAngelis_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BadranDeAngelis-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area served</th><td class="infobox-data">Syria, Turkey, Iraq</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data">unknown</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data">unknown</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editor</th><td class="infobox-data">Adib Abdulmajid, Zachary Singer, Abdulilah Ibrahim (Egid)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aranews.org/">aranews<wbr />.org</a></span> <span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aranews.net/">aranews<wbr />.net</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Online_advertising" title="Online advertising">Advertising</a></th><td class="infobox-data">No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commercial</th><td class="infobox-data">unknown</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registration</th><td class="infobox-data">None</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">May 2013<span class="noprint">; 11 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2013-05</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Inactive</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b> ARA News</b></i> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">آرانيوز</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" title="Romanization of Arabic">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">ʾĀrā Niyūz</i></span>) was an online news service focused on the consequences of war in <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TilburgInterview_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TilburgInterview-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although described as a <a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurdish</a> news agency by its director, the site started as an Arabic-only news service and as of January 2016<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ARA_News&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, still published only in the Arabic and English languages,<sup id="cite_ref-BadranDeAngelis_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BadranDeAngelis-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-archiveJune2013_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archiveJune2013-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and ceased publishing around August 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-ARANews_20170817_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ARANews_20170817-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>ARA News</i> was referenced hundreds of times by other news vendors, and thousands of times in social media.<sup id="cite_ref-Xurxf_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Xurxf-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-QI1FD_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QI1FD-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>ARA News</i> was supported by <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Press_Unlimited" class="extiw" title="nl:Free Press Unlimited">Free Press Unlimited</a>, a media development organisation based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.<sup id="cite_ref-freepressunlim_about_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freepressunlim_about-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ownership,_identity_and_reliability"><span id="Ownership.2C_identity_and_reliability"></span>Ownership, identity and reliability</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ARA_News&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Ownership, identity and reliability"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>ARA News</i> is a member of the Ethical Charter for Syrian Media.<sup id="cite_ref-Almethaq_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Almethaq-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ownership of the <i>ARA News</i> is unpublished. The founder and chief editor is Adib Abdulmajid,<sup id="cite_ref-Clarion_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Clarion-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a Syrian Kurd who fled Syria after taking part in pro-democracy activities, and sought asylum in the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TilburgInterview_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TilburgInterview-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reporters and editors of <i>ARA News</i> are named. Most of the staff are Kurdish, some are Arabs.<sup id="cite_ref-BadranDeAngelis_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BadranDeAngelis-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>ARA News</i> was supported by <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Press_Unlimited" class="extiw" title="nl:Free Press Unlimited">Free Press Limited</a>, whose mission statement is that "People deserve to know." Free Press Unlimited claims to work to ensure that impartial news and information are and remain available to people across the globe, particularly in countries where there is little to no press freedom. Free Press Unlimited has media projects in approximately 40 countries around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-freepressunlim_about_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freepressunlim_about-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ARA_News&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>ARA</i> is an abbreviation of the <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Kurdish languages">Kurdish</a> <i>Ajansa Rojnamevaniya Azad</i>, meaning "Independent Press Agency".<sup id="cite_ref-ARA-about_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ARA-about-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Arabic name (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">آرانيوز</span>) is a simple transliteration of <i>ARA News</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ARA_News&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>ARA News</i> was founded by Adib Abdulmajid in 2013, the website's domain name having been registered in April 2013,<sup id="cite_ref-CU9HB_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CU9HB-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the first news reports were published in June 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-archiveJune2013_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archiveJune2013-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abdulmajid, a graduate of <a href="/wiki/University_of_Damascus" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Damascus">Damascus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tilburg_University" title="Tilburg University">Tilburg</a> universities, believed that in Syria and its region "freedom of expression has been suppressed for decades", and he created <i>ARA News</i> as "a step forward towards free media" in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-Clarion_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Clarion-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TilburgInterview_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TilburgInterview-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the aim of developing professional journalism in Syria, in 2014 Free Press Unlimited gave training to editors, news managers and reporters from <i>ARA News</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-K9UZl_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-K9UZl-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015 <i>ARA News</i> became one of the first 20 signatories of the Ethical Charter for Syrian Media, "an alliance of significant independent Syrian media organisations committed to the highest standards of journalism and unimpeded freedom of speech" established under <a href="/wiki/Swedish_International_Development_Cooperation_Agency" title="Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency">Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency</a> sponsorship.<sup id="cite_ref-Almethaq_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Almethaq-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4mPh1_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4mPh1-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The last online publication of <i>ARA News</i> was issued online in late August 2017.<sup 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