Accounts on social media circulated a video claiming it documents Syrians returning from Yemen via a Turkish airport, saying 40 bodies were returned to Syria after Saudi Arabia refused to bury them, even though they were killed defending it.
The "Kashaf" team checked the clip through a digital trace that included converting the video into still frames and running a reverse search on them using Google Lens, and found that the video goes back to the funeral of casualties from Idlib governorate who fell during battles between the Syrian government and "SDF" forces in the governorates of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, on 19/01/2026.
Why is the news misleading?
Context changed: A clip documenting the funeral of casualties from Idlib governorate who fell in battles in Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor was recirculated and attributed to the return of Syrian bodies from Yemen via a Turkish airport, events the clip does not document.
