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Meta Platforms bans Russian state media from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, including RT and Rossiya Segodnya, citing alleged deceptive tactics used by the networks to carry out "influence operations" while evading detection.
2024-09-17

Syrian state media says that a missile attack from Israel hit Masyaf, Hama Governorate, killing five people and injuring seven others.
2022-05-13

Syrian Army troops and pro-Iranian militias launch a major ground assault on a rebel-held enclave in the city of Daraa. Rebel forces say that they have repulsed the attack from the western side of the enclave. State media says that the army was preparing to end a "state of lawlessness and chaos" and "reimpose army control" in the city.
2021-08-23

Australian foreign minister Marise Payne confirms that Chinese-born Australian journalist Cheng Lei, an anchor for the China Global Television Network, a state-controlled media broadcaster, has been detained in Beijing under "residential surveillance" since August 14. The Chinese foreign ministry has not cited a rationale behind her detention.
2020-08-31

Syrian state media says the Syrian Air Defense Force has downed three Turkish drones used to hit Syrian Army and air bases.
2020-03-1

The Israeli Air Force launches an air raid on Iranian targets in the Syrian capital Damascus. Syrian state media says the Air Defense Force intercepted several missiles.
2020-02-13

Twitter suspends several Cuban government and state media accounts, including First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Raúl Castro and his daughter Mariela Castro. The pro-government Union of Journalists of Cuba denounces the suspensions as "massive censorship".
2019-09-12

The government of Eritrea says the capital Asmara is "calm" a day after dissident soldiers seized the information ministry and state media.
2013-01-22

The Chinese state-run "Global Times" newspaper dismisses international criticism over the arrest of artist Ai Weiwei.
2011-04-6

All Russian state media is to be put up for sale by the government.
2010-12-2