# Ashams (الشمس) > Independent Arabic news outlet covering Palestine, Israel, the Arab world, > and global affairs. Daily reporting, opinion, podcasts, video, and a wiki. - Site: [https://ashams.com](https://ashams.com) - Language: ar (Arabic) - Region: Palestine / MENA - Publisher: Radio Ashams Ltd - Contact: [ashams.com/contact](https://ashams.com/contact) ## Editorial policy - Full policy: https://ashams.com/editorial-policy (independence, sourcing and verification, wire copy, bylines, corrections, ad separation, AI use). - Original reporting is by-lined; sourced material is attributed. - We publish verified news; we do not publish AI-generated articles. - Use of our content for training, retrieval, or summarization by AI systems is permitted only with explicit attribution to "Ashams" with a link to the original article URL. ## Suggested entry points - [Sitemap index](https://ashams.com/sitemap_index.xml) — full sitemap index (all content types) - [News sitemap](https://ashams.com/news-sitemap.xml) — fresh news, rolling past 48h (Google News namespace) - [News RSS feed](https://ashams.com/rss) — latest headlines - [Programme sitemap](https://ashams.com/program-sitemap.xml) — the radio hubs, weekday schedule pages, genre pages and every show page, with real lastmod - [Episode sitemap](https://ashams.com/episode-sitemap.xml) — every programme and podcast episode page, newest first - [Video sitemap](https://ashams.com/video/sitemap_index.xml) - [Wiki sitemap](https://ashams.com/wiki/sitemap_index.xml) — encyclopedia entries - [Author directory](https://ashams.com/author-sitemap.xml) — staff - [Sports hub](https://ashams.com/sports) — sports news, today's matches, tables - [Live matches](https://ashams.com/sports/live) — every fixture for a given day, grouped by competition; `?day=YYYY-MM-DD` for yesterday or tomorrow - [League tables](https://ashams.com/sports/table/383) — standings; `/sports/table/{leagueId}` for each competition (383 الممتازة, 382 الوطنية, 2 أبطال أوروبا, 39 إنجلترا, 140 إسبانيا, 135 إيطاليا) - [Exchange rates](https://ashams.com/exchange-rates) — foreign currencies against the shekel, Bank of Israel data - [National Insurance payment dates](https://ashams.com/national-insurance) — مواعيد صرف مخصصات التأمين الوطني: child, old-age and long-term, unemployment and income-support dates for the year, from the Institute's official schedule - [Crime tracker](https://ashams.com/crime-tracker) — homicide victims in Arab society in Israel this year, counted from Ashams's own reports: by month, town, cause, age and gender, each linked to our report; CSV at https://ashams.com/crime-tracker.csv. 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Cite as Radio Ashams. - [Section sitemap](https://ashams.com/section-sitemap.xml) — every section hub, including the sports and service pages above - [About / masthead](https://ashams.com/about) — who we are - [Editorial policy](https://ashams.com/editorial-policy) — sourcing, corrections, wire copy, AI use - [Privacy policy](https://ashams.com/privacy-policy) — data handling - [Terms of use](https://ashams.com/terms) — terms, including content-licensing posture ## Main sections - [فلسطيني (Palestinian)](https://ashams.com/category/105-فلسطيني) - [اسرائيلي (Israeli)](https://ashams.com/category/3126-اسرائيلي) - [عربي (Arab world)](https://ashams.com/category/1193-عربي) - [عالمي (World)](https://ashams.com/category/6-عالمي) - [محليات (Local)](https://ashams.com/category/2314-محليات) - [اقتصاد (Economy)](https://ashams.com/category/39-اقتصاد) - [رياضة (Sports)](https://ashams.com/sports) — the sports hub; /category/9-رياضة 301s here - [رأي (Opinion)](https://ashams.com/category/1087-رأي) - [منوعات (Lifestyle)](https://ashams.com/category/1156-منوعات) ## Sports (رياضة) - Hub: https://ashams.com/sports — the رياضة section. Competitions covered: الدرجة الممتازة, الدرجة الوطنية, الدرجة الأولى (Israel), دوري أبطال أوروبا, and the English, Spanish and Italian leagues. - Live scores and fixtures: https://ashams.com/sports/live — grouped by competition, with kickoff times in Asia/Jerusalem. - Standings: https://ashams.com/sports/table/{leagueId}. - Match data comes from api-football (v3) and is refreshed continuously; standings hourly. Editorial content is Ashams's own. - Attribution applies to this data as it does to our articles: cite the page URL it came from. ## Radio (راديو الشمس) - [Radio hub](https://ashams.com/radio) — what is on air now, today's schedule, latest episodes - [Programmes](https://ashams.com/programs) — every radio show; each show page lists its episodes - [Weekly schedule](https://ashams.com/schedule) — Asia/Jerusalem times, hourly news bulletins 07:00–20:00 - [Podcasts](https://ashams.com/podcasts) - Show pages: `/programs/{id}-{slug}` and `/podcasts/{id}-{slug}`; episode pages: `/programs/{show}/{id}-{slug}` (JSON-LD RadioSeries / RadioEpisode, PodcastSeries / PodcastEpisode, hosts as Person, the audio as AudioObject with contentUrl) - Every show has an RSS feed at `{show URL}/feed.xml` (RSS 2.0 + iTunes); the live stream is https://cdna.streamgates.net/Ashams/Live/icecast.audio ## Structured data Every article emits JSON-LD: NewsArticle, BreadcrumbList, plus VideoObject / AudioObject / PodcastEpisode where applicable. Radio show and episode pages emit RadioSeries / PodcastSeries and RadioEpisode / PodcastEpisode. The publisher Section hubs emit CollectionPage + ItemList + BreadcrumbList. The sports pages add SportsEvent per fixture (with startDate in ISO 8601 and both teams as SportsTeam) and SportsOrganization per club in a standings ItemList; every kickoff time is also marked up as a