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Rojava Information Center

The Rojava Information Center (RIC; ) is a news agency in Syria. Its headquarters are located in Qamishli. It was founded by foreign volunteers in Rojava (Matt Broomfield, Joan Garcia, Koni Docolomansky and Chloé Troadec) in reaction to the December 2018 announcement of US president Donald Trump 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 (AANES), often known as Rojava. Rojava Information Center describes Rojava as "An organization which follows path of socialist revolutionary named Abdullah Öcalan" who is the founder of PKK.

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The Rojava Information Center (RIC; ) is a news agency in Syria. Its headquarters are located in Qamishli. It was founded by foreign volunteers in Rojava (Matt Broomfield, Joan Garcia, Koni Docolomansky and Chloé Troadec) in reaction to the December 2018 announcement of US president Donald Trump 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 (AANES), often known as Rojava. Rojava Information Center describes Rojava as "An organization which follows path of socialist revolutionary named Abdullah Öcalan" who is the founder of PKK.

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 2018 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "2018". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1301957589

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.