Orient News (in Arabic تلفزيون أورينت) was a Syrian media group owned by Syrian businessman, journalist and opposition figure Ghassan Aboud,[2] based in Istanbul, providing news service to the Middle East with a focus on Syria.

Private non-Syrian channels typically used dialects of Arabic not used in Syrian society, which varies socially and culturally.

Plans for launching of a channel were disclosed by Abboud end of 2007, and test broadcasts started by May 2008 with logo of the station and music from Fairuz.

On November 21, 2023, the owner of Orient News, Ghassan Aboud, announced the definitive closure of the media.

[7] Orient News TV was based in Turkey,[9] and broadcast to Syria, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.

The Center was concerned with field studies that attempt to monitor the daily variables that affect the Syrian life inside and outside the country, through solid scientific and academy means, such as researchers working on ground and the direct contact with the sources of the study, approving surveys and design research questionnaires and analyzing them.

The Center organized research workshops with senior specialists regarding topics linked to the Syrian status in order to achieve an objective vision that helps to recognize the quick developments of real life in Syria.

Later he moved to the business world and founded the Ghassan Aboud Foundation for Vehicles,[28] an organisation for international automotive re-export.