BasNews
BasNews is a Kurdish news outlet based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, publishing in Kurdish, Arabic, English, and other languages. It provides coverage of Kurdish, Iraqi, and broader regional news and developments for a multilingual audience, reaching readers in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq, and the wider Kurdish diaspora.
BasNews at a glance
- Country
- Iraq
- Kind of outlet
- News portal
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- basnews.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups BasNews
Crosswire groups BasNews as Centrist for comparisons within Iraq's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate.
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Where BasNews sits in Iraq's press
BasNews is one of 6 outlets tracked in Iraq and the only news portal tracked there. By outlets tracked, Iraq ranks fifth of the 20 countries on Crosswire's Middle East and North Africa hub, which lists 99 outlets in all.
Across the Middle East and North Africa, Crosswire tracks 8 of the 80 news portals in the directory. The nearest counterparts to BasNews outside Iraq, starting with Türkiye, Iran and Iraq, are Alwasat (Libya), Youm7 (Egypt), Naharnet (Lebanon) and Ynetnews (Israel). Opening one of them beside BasNews is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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