Accounts on social media circulated a report claiming that Idlib Governorate had mourned dozens of fighters killed during the recent battles in Yemen.
The fact-checking team reviewed official and Syrian media sources and checked the report with field sources, and it emerged that no fighter from Idlib Governorate killed during the Yemen battles had been mourned, which refutes what was circulated.
Why is this claim false?
Fabricated field reporting: The claim rested on an invented report backed by no official or local death notice, circulated in collective form to suggest that large numbers of the governorate's sons had fallen in battles abroad.
