Al Aan broadcasts from Dubai Media City.

Al Aan TV is free-to-air at Arabsat and Nilesat, mobile phones, radio and smartphone applications.

In 2019-2020, Jenan Moussa, a roving reporter covering the Syrian Civil War and other major stories for Al Aan TV, succeeded in getting phone content of top German ISIL widow Omaima Abdi, including thousands of pictures showing her carrying a gun and also her husband Deso Dogg. She returned to Hamburg and was living as if nothing happened. As a result of Jenan’s effort, Omaima Abdi was sentenced to three years and six months imprisonment.

The channel came into the spotlight when it aired a rare video of a woman being stoned to death by Taliban in Orakzai Agency Pakistan.

Al Aan TV was the only TV station in the world to film and report [5] the funeral of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi after his death in the 2011 Libyan civil war.