CNN Investigating If Man Gave 'False Identity' In Dramatic Syrian Prison Report
A Syrian fact-checking group alleges the man in the viral report had a violent past and had been detained for less than a ...
CNN Confirms It Was Misled By Man In Viral Syrian Prison Report
The news outlet reported the man was said to have been involved with the collapsed Assad regime as an intelligence officer.
With overthrow of Assad regime, Syrian Canadian recalls 20 years of 'torment' inside its prisons
WARNING: This story includes graphic descriptions of torture.Nabil Hawara painfully remembers the endless cycle of torture ...
'I was tortured in a Syrian prison - the fall of Bashar al-Assad felt like a dream'
A Syrian former political prisoner says it "felt like a dream" when Bashar al-Assad's murderous regime finally fell, bringing ...
CNN says its report on a freed Syrian prisoner is not what it initially believed
A report by CNN's Clarissa Ward about a freed Syrian prisoner provided some dramatic scenes, but the network has since found ...
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Former Syrian detainee recounts indiscriminate PKK/YPG torture
The YPG, the Syrian offshoot of the PKK terrorist group, indiscriminately tortures anyone who opposes it in Syrian cities it ...
A CNN team rescued a ‘prisoner’ from Syrian jail. Now, the outlet admits he was an Assad torturer
After a fact-checking group in Syria concluded that a man found in an abandoned Syrian prison was actually an Assad officer ...
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CNN launches investigation after Syrian prisoner rescue report faces intense scrutiny
Fact-checking organisation says prison rescue video by the network's chief international correspondent is fabricated ...
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SC resident faces charges of torturing inmates as head of Syrian prison
LEXINGTON — A Midlands immigrant who formerly headed a Syrian prison notorious for abusing inmates has been charged by ...
Inside a Syrian Prison: A Producer’s Unexpected Personal Discovery
Assad’s downfall, WSJ travels to an abandoned prison in Damascus while families across Syria desperately search for missing ...
Viral CNN segment showing Syrian prisoner being freed under scrutiny
CNN’s Clarissa Ward went viral last week when she covered the alleged rescue of a “Syrian prisoner," who she reported spent “three months in a windowless cell." ...
Man released from Syrian prison in viral CNN report was actually intelligence officer for Assad
The outlet disclosed that it had discovered the supposed civilian was Salama Mohammad Salama, a lieutenant in Assad's Air Force Intelligence Directorate.