Syria-News

Syria-News

"Syria-News" is an online press agency intended to report news about Syria. Their website features several categories of news (domestic, regional, political, and economical) as well as reports and questionnaires that concern Syrian issues. It enables users to comment on most of the news, as well to send contributions, in both cases, they can be published only upon approval.

"Syria-News" was launched in late 2003, and by that time publishing an online press agency was not straightforward in Syria where most websites featuring political news about Syria were blocked. This gave it a semi-official status, since it was approved by the Syrian government and the participation of some ministers confirmed this status.

The website has become quite popular in Syria, as an approved portal to talk about domestic issues and to loudly speak about some people problems.

In 2006 the official domain name of their website was hijacked, but soon later retaken. [http://aymanh.com/syria-news-com-hijacked 1] .

As of Feb. 18th 2008 the site is blocked on all Syrian ISPs, it's browseable only form outside Syria (foreign ISPs), even the alternative URL http://www.news-sy.com is blocked as well.

As of Feb. 6th 2008, the site is back to be browseable from Syrian ISPs, no official statement from the site nor from Syrian authorities on why did the block/unblock happened.

External links

* [http://www.syria-news.com Official website]


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