[3] Launched in August 2013, the agency releases daily news content, including photographs, videos, and text.
[3] In 2014, the European Endowment for Democracy, based in Brussels, Belgium, gave SMART a €129,000 grant.
[3] In September 2015, SMART News Agency and Okio Report released an interactive virtual reality video on the aftermath of the Battle of Jisr al-Shughur.
On 26 September, Obada Ghazal, the SMART journalist who filmed the video, was killed by an airstrike in Taftanaz.
[5] In June 2016, SMART News Agency released another VR video, this time on the White Helmets in Aleppo.