Shafaq News

Shafaq News is an Iraqi multilingual news agency reporting in Arabic, English and Kurdish. It covers Iraqi and Kurdistan Region politics, security, economy and society, plus Middle East and international affairs.

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Shafaq News at a glance

Country: Iraq
Region: Türkiye, Iran and Iraq · Middle East and North Africa
Kind of outlet: News agency
Editorial leaning: Centrist
Website: shafaq.com ↗
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Is Shafaq News left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?

Shafaq News is listed as Center on Crosswire: news agencies supply reporting to outlets across the whole spectrum, which rewards a deliberately neutral news style.

Read Shafaq News beside another title from Iraq and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Agency copy is written to be resold to outlets across the spectrum, so Shafaq News is a useful baseline: compare its plain account of an event with how partisan titles in Iraq headline the same wire story, and the framing each adds becomes visible by subtraction. Because Shafaq News is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Iraq either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

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Where Shafaq News sits in Iraq's press

Shafaq News is one of 6 outlets tracked in Iraq and the only news agency 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 10 of the 51 news agencies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Shafaq News outside Iraq, starting with Türkiye, Iran and Iraq, are SANA (Syria), WAFA (Palestine), KUNA (Kuwait) and Saba (Sanaa) (Yemen). Opening one of them beside Shafaq News is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.