Rojava Information Center
Rojava Information Center (RIC) is a news agency based in Syria. It was co-founded by foreign volunteers and sympathizers of the is Kurdish movement around Thomas McClure in reaction of the announcement of the president of the United States, Donald Trump to pull US troops out of north-east Syria in December 2018.[1] The initiators were worried there might be an other war and in their perception there was little foreign media present at the time. As a result they established the RIC.[1]
The aim of the RIC is to provide journalists with information from north-east Syria, which is governed by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES), better known as Rojava. It as well provides information regarding the regions with an Arab majority population like Raqqa, Manbij and Deir ez-Zor, which are also governed by the NES.[1] It has collaborated with news agencies like CNN, BBC, Associated Press (AP) and the New York Times.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Bellingreri, Marta (2019-12-24). "Rojava Information Center, a media bridge to the world outside". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
- ^ "Rojava Information Center". Rojava Information Center. Retrieved 2020-03-29.