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State / loyalist estimate · not a score

SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency)

🇸🇾SY · state agency · state-controlled · sana.sy

Spectrum	Left Centre-left Centre Centre-right Right State / loyalist An estimate, not a score.
Founded	1965-06-24 — establishment of SANA as the Syrian state's official news agency · source
Headquarters	Damascus, Syria · source
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In its own words	Describes itself, in its own site footer, as "The official national news agency of Syria, established on June 24, 1965. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Information and headquartered in Damascus."
Identity	Wikipedia

Bias we have measured in their reporting

Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text, per article, with the quote.

Ownership

Holder	Type	Stake	Control	Instrument	Since	Source
Government of Syria (Ministry of Information)	state body	not disclosed	yes	state funding	—	link

Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.

Editorial control

Ziad Mohamid (also transliterated Zyad Mahameed)

Director-General, SANA

Khaled Fawaz Zaarour

CEO, SANA (per English Wikipedia infobox)

Journalists

Rafah Hassan Alalouni

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Mohammad Qassim Rawi

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Reem Abdulhameed

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Abdulrahim Ahmad

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Mohamad Ibrahim

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Mohamad Mazen Eyon

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Mustafa Al Mustafa

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Covers

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What we hold from them

UN Syria Commission welcomes reconstruction progress, stresses accountability

Palestinian killed, four injured and 17 detained in Israeli attacks

Syria highlights justice efforts, transitional accountability at Human Rights Council

Six Palestinians injured, former prisoner detained in Israeli attacks in West Bank

Kuwait, Arab League, Arab Parliament condemn Israeli remarks on displacing Gazans

Arab Foreign Ministers address regional escalation, call for unified stance

Minister Al-Shaibani: Syria returns to Arab role, enters comprehensive rebuilding

Stories where they were checked and didn’t cover it

Al-Monitor: Iran hit "more than a dozen" ships. An-Nahar names five Iranian tankers destroyed by US Central Command —

Four dead at a wedding in Kuhestak. Three of four experts say the munition was American. — read, nothing on this event

Troops killed two at al-Mughayyir. The IDF says it went in for livestock. — read, nothing on this event

The US energy secretary says 17 million barrels crossed Hormuz on Monday. AFP says Iran has shut the strait. — read, nothing on this event

Saudi Arabia says Iran hit the tanker Sidr in Hormuz. AFP, on the same site, calls the attacks unclaimed. — read, nothing on this event

Israel's military says it took the Ali Taher Ridge. The one Lebanese account we hold is two days older and names no ridge. — read, nothing on this event

Haaretz calls Israel's answer a "nothingburger"; Al Jazeera counts four countermeasures —

An-Nahar says more than twenty hit around Nabatieh, IRNA says one killed and two wounded —

Saar says Israel plans "to expel or deport" nobody from Gaza; the Jerusalem Post report we hold does not carry the remark —

France 24 says twelve countries will ban settlement goods; the Jerusalem Post calls it the "UK's Israel boycott" — read, nothing on this event

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