Accounts on social media circulated a video claiming to document Popular Mobilization Forces reinforcements heading to a clash site with the Syrian side along the Iraqi-Syrian border strip.
The fact-checking team traced the circulating claim by breaking the video into still frames and running a reverse image search on them, and found that the footage is old and unrelated to current events. The results showed it had been published earlier on TikTok on 20 November 2025 under the tag "Our Sacred Hashd," with no stated location. While the team could not conclusively determine the exact place or date of filming, its circulation since last year rules out its being recent or linked to any alleged clashes.
Why is this claim misleading?
Reposting an old video in a different context: The claim relied on recycling old footage of military reinforcements and reframing it in a new context alleging they were heading to clashes on the Syria-Iraq border, to imply a present-day field escalation.
