Al-Watan (Syria)

'The Homeland') is a privately owned government-aligned[2] Syrian Arabic language daily newspaper published in Syria.

It is the country's first private daily newspaper since the 1960s (not counting the state party organ Al-Baath), but its editorial line and reporting is practically identical to that of the public-owned papers.

[2] In fact, the owner of the daily is the cousin of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Rami Makhlouf.

[5] The online edition of the paper was the 33rd most visited website for 2010 in the MENA region.

[6] After the fall of the Assad regime in 2024, the newspaper published a statement from its editor-in-chief Waddah Abd Rabbo saying that it was "only carrying out instructions and publishing the news (the government) sent us".