The BBC World Service is to offer enhanced services to listeners across the country as local media and digital services are disrupted.
Broadcasting news and information in Arabic, the service will air BBC News Arabic bulletins throughout the day including the BBC News Arabic’s World at One and BBC News Arabic’s Newsnight.
It will also feature packages from the Gaza Lifeline service and contributions from correspondents such as Feras Kilani as well as the BBC’s wealth of reporters based across the region.
There will also be an English offer on the network, curated from World Service English, for those Syrians who speak the language.
Jonathan Munro, Global Director, BBC News, says: “As we have all been watching, listening to and reading about the dramatic changes that have swept through Syria, the Syrian population have been left without essential access to reliable and independent news about the events taking place.
“The BBC World Service’s enhanced services will bring them the latest breaking news and analysis from Syria, the Middle East and the rest of the world.”
The Syrian radio network will go out on medium wave, 720kHz and 639kHz, and on 93.0 FM.
