Al-Bayan (radio station)

al-Bayan
البيان
Broadcast area Syria
Iraq
Libya
Programming
LanguagesArabic, Kurdish, English, French, Russian and other languages
FormatReligious, news, talk, terrorist propaganda
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
2014-2018

Al-Bayan (Arabic: البيان, romanizedal-Bayān, lit.'The Statement') is the Islamic State's official radio station, formerly based in Iraq, owned and operated by the Islamic State, which broadcast at 92.5 on the FM dial. The station aired a news-talk format and broadcasts in the Arabic, Kurdish, English, French, and Russian languages.

Originating from Mosul, Al-Bayan programs were credited with being "highly professional and slickly produced" and were sometimes compared to NPR and the BBC for tone and quality. Al-Bayan's reporting on IS military operations had been referenced by the Associated Press and The Washington Post''. The station stopped broadcasting after IS lost most of its bases in Iraq and Syria and after the radio station was destroyed by an air raid.

Broadcasts by IS resumed later from Sirte, Libya under the station name "Radio Al-Tawheed".