Al-Masdar News
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Type of site
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News and opinion |
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| Available in | English, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, German, Serbo-Croatian |
| Area served | the Arab world |
| Editor | Leith Abou Fadel |
| Slogan(s) | Dedicated to providing the latest news and analysis from the Arab world |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 11,324 (February 2017[update]) |
| Advertising | Yes |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | August 2014 |
| Current status | Active |
Al-Masdar News (sometimes abbreviated AMN) (Arabic: المصدر نيوز) is an online newspaper founded by Leith Abou Fadel. Al-Masdar means "the source" in Arabic. Al-Masdar's coverage focuses largely on conflict zones in the Middle East: Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Al-Masdar has several Syria-based correspondents, and claims sources within the Syrian military.
As stated by al-Masdar News (AMN), it was launched in August 2014 as a media service that provides frontline news and map updates from the Syrian conflict, as well as analysis, from sources inside Syria as an alternative counterweight to the mainstream media.
Following the April 2017 Khan Shaykhun chemical attack in the Idlib Governorate, al-Masdar News published an opinion article entitled "Jumping to conclusions; something is not adding up in Idlib chemical weapons attack". A report by the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) published three days later described a "digital forensics" trail which showed how this al-Masdar opinion article was later linked by conspiracy, pro-Russian and far-right websites. It described al-Masdar News as "an unofficial government outlet" and said that it had "repeatedly attacked regime critics and witnesses to regime atrocities, notably the White Helmets."Business Insider showed the conclusions in the AMN article differing markedly with those of other analysts.
The website was described by the BBC and Newsweek as having a pro-Syrian government viewpoint, while The Independent describes it as "sympathetic to the Syrian regime".The New York Times has described it as a "pro-government website". Leonid Bershidsky writing in Bloomberg News, however, calls al-Masdar "somewhat pro-Assad."
Business Insider reporter Natasha Bertrand has described Leith Abou Fadel, the editor of al-Masdar, as someone who had pushed a conspiracy theory in the past, and described him as an "Assad loyalist".
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