The man claimed he was taken from his home in Homs, arrested three months ago, and interrogated about his phone contacts.

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 ...

CNN admitted on Monday that it had been misled by a man who the network initially reported to be a Syrian prisoner freed from ...

The news outlet reported the man was said to have been involved with the collapsed Assad regime as an intelligence officer.

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 ...

The prisoner, whose real name is Salama Mohammad Salama, was a first lieutenant in the Syrian Air Force Intelligence, which served former President Assad, Syrian fact-checking organization ...

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 ...

The prisoner, initially thought to be Adel Ghurbal, was revealed to be Salama Mohammad Salama, a lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence, accused of war crimes and extortion. Elon Musk and 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 ...

CNN is facing widespread criticism after a Syrian prisoner freed in a high-profile rescue effort led by journalist Clarissa ...