Aswat al-Iraq

Aswat al-Iraq (in Arabic اصوات العراق, Kurdish ئه‌سوات ئه‌لعیراق) is an independent national news agency in Iraq, established in 2004.

[1] Funded by the United Nations Development Program,[2] and with assistance from the Reuters Foundation and Internews,[3] it produces over 60 stories a day in Arabic, some 20 to 25 in English and 15 to 20 in the Sorani dialect of Kurdish.

Aswat's director is the Iraqi journalist and writer[5] Zuhair Al-Jezairy, who in 2008 was a visiting scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace.

The agency operates a network of reporters and stringers in all of Iraq's 18 governorates, plus regional cities of importance to Iraqi news such as Amman, Cairo, Damascus and Tehran.

The desk moved to Irbil in the spring of 2007 and maintains a network of correspondents and editors in the Iraqi capital.