The account Fidaa Alhalabi on Facebook circulated a report claiming that Syrian government forces swept into As-Suwayda with 450,000 personnel, including members of the ISIS organisation, with Alhalabi stating that his information came from a report previously published by Foreign Policy magazine.
The Kashaf team reviewed the archive of Foreign Policy magazine from mid-July 2025 until now, and searched by keyword across social media platforms and search engines, without finding any documented report containing the attached claims in Foreign Policy magazine or on any other credible site.
Why is this claim false?
Fabricated news: The claim rested on a report attributed to an international magazine, while no such report exists in the magazine's archive, which makes the attribution of its figures and information to Foreign Policy a claim with no basis.
