Salama Mohammad Salama — a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence — allegedly misled rebels and CNN’s Clarissa Ward into leading him out of prison last week in a harrowing video ...

A Syrian fact-checking group alleges the man in the viral report had a violent past and had been detained for less than a ...

Ward confirmed the man was actually Salama Mohammad Salama, also known as Abu Hamza, who was a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence. CNN's report said he was known for extortion and ...

However, the outlet disclosed Monday that it had discovered the supposed civilian was, in reality, Salama Mohammad Salama, a lieutenant in Assad’s Air Force Intelligence Directorate.

An image obtained by CNN on Monday now points to the man’s real identity – said to be a lieutenant in the Assad regime’s Air Force Intelligence Directorate, Salama Mohammad Salama.

CNN faced criticism after helping free a Syrian prisoner who was later identified as a torturer for the Assad regime. Elon ...

Verify-SY, a Syrian journalism organization specializing in fact-checking and combating misinformation, on Sunday reported the prisoner was actually Salama Mohammad Salama, also known as Abu Hamza ...

But a few days later, a Syrian fact-checking site, Verify-Sy, said that the man was really Salama Mohammad Salama, and that ...

CNN reported on Monday that facial recognition software made a 99% match to a photo of a lieutenant in the Assad regime’s Air Force Intelligence Directorate named Salama Mohammad Salama.

The man was not who he said he was. He was actually a lieutenant in the Bashar al-Assad regime’s Air Force Intelligence Directorate, Salama Mohammad Salama, according to CNN. The “prisoner ...