The Rojava Information Center (RIC) () is a news agency in

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. Its headquarters are located in Qamishli. It was founded by foreign volunteers in

Rojava The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava, is a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. It consists of self-governing Regions of North and East Syria, sub-regions in the areas of Afrin Region ...

(Thomas McClure, Joan Garcia, Koni Docolomansky and Chloé Troadec) in reaction to the December 2018 announcement of US president

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...

of a US military withdrawal from Rojava. The project creators were worried there might be another war and in their perception there was little foreign media present at the time. During the Turkish invasion of Afrin, the RIC began to provide information to a wide range of foreign reporters. The aim of the RIC is to provide foreign journalists with information from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES), better known as Rojava. Rojava Information Center describes

as "An organization which follows path of socialist revolutionary named

Abdullah Öcalan Abdullah Öcalan ( ; ; born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish and Kurdish for "uncle"), is a political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Öcalan was based in Syria from ...

" who is the founder of

PKK The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of sout ...

.{{Cite web, title=The New York Times - In the Autonomous Zones, url=https://rojavainformationcenter.com/2020/07/the-new-york-times-in-the-autonomous-zones, url-status=live, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627181009/https://rojavainformationcenter.com/2020/07/the-new-york-times-in-the-autonomous-zones/, archive-date=27 June 2021, website=Rojava Information Center

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News agencies based in Syria Mass media in Syria