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Enab Baladi

Enab Baladi is an independent Syrian news organization founded in 2011 in Daraya by civilian activists during the uprising against Bashar al-Assad. It operated for years from exile in Istanbul, becoming one of the most cited independent Syrian outlets, and returned to work inside Syria after the fall of the Assad government in December 2024. It publishes in Arabic and English.

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Enab Baladi is positioned toward the editorial center of Syria's media spectrum, or its orientation is mixed or not consistently classified by the major media-bias assessments. Crosswire groups Syria outlets into left, center and right so you can read the same day's events from more than one vantage point: seeing Enab Baladi beside outlets of a different orientation makes editorial choices — which stories lead, which framing is used, what gets omitted — far easier to spot than reading any single source alone.

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