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Amaq News Agency
وكالة أعماق الإخبارية
File:Amaq logo.svg
Available inArabic, English, French, German, Albanian, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Bengali, Urdu[citation needed]
Founder(s)Rayan Meshaal[1]

Amaq News Agency (Template:Lang-ar) is a heavily sensationalised, fake news outlet linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), It is often the "first point of publication for claims of responsibility by the group".[2]

  1. ^ "Un fondateur d'Aamaq, l'agence de propagande de l'EI, tué en Syrie". 31 May 2017 – via Le Monde.
  2. ^ "A News Agency With Scoops Directly From ISIS, and a Veneer of Objectivity". The New York Times. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.