The prisoner CNN escorted out of jail after he was freed by Syrian rebels was actually Salama Mohammad Salama , a notorious member of ousted President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, who tricked the ...

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 is investigating the identity of a man the network filmed being “rescued” from an Assad regime prison as a new report reveals the purported prisoner was actually a notorious member Syrian ...

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.

However, Verify-Sy, a Syrian fact-checking organization, later identified the man as Salama Mohammad Salama, a resident of the central Syrian city of Homs and a lieutenant in the Assad regime’s ...

Inhabitants of Al Bayyada, Homs, later recognized the individual as Salama Mohammad Salama, commonly referred to as Abu Hamza. Salama served as a first lieutenant in the intelligence division of ...

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. While the ...

Verify-Sy identified the 'hidden prisoner' as Salama Mohammad Salama, a first lieutenant in the Syrian Air Force Intelligence, which served former President Bashar al-Assad.

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, ...

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.