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

CNN admitted Monday it had been misled by a man who the network initially reported in a viral segment to be a Syrian prisoner freed from a secret jail. CNN’s Clarissa Ward's news segment spread widely ...

CNN says it is investigating the background and identity of a man featured in a stunning recent report that appeared to show his discovery in a Syrian prison and his subsequent release. The report, ...

A man who was filmed by CNN being released by rebels from a Damascus jail was a former intelligence officer with the deposed Syrian regime, according to local residents, and not an ordinary citizen ...

CNN confirmed Monday that it had been deceived about the identity of a man featured in a viral news report last week appearing to show the moment he was found in a Syrian prison and freed. The man ...

“We can confirm the real identity of the man from our story last Wednesday as Salama Mohammed Salama,” Ward wrote on X. Last week, Ward and her team visited a prison building at the Syrian air force ...

A man CNN described in a viral report as a rebel prisoner of deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad’s totalitarian regime has turned out to be a notorious ex-intelligence officer for the former ...

Not everything was as it seemed when CNN captured the release of a prisoner from a Damascus jail. The man was not who he said he was. He was actually a lieutenant in the Bashar al-Assad regime’s Air ...

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. A resident of the ...