Accounts on social media circulated a video, with those posting it claiming that it documented internal clashes between what they described as Jolani gangs, in a reference to the current Syrian government forces, against the background of a struggle to divide power and influence in Al-Sanamayn in the Daraa countryside.
The fact-checking team followed up on the report and reviewed Syrian official, media and local sources, and found that the clashes did in fact take place in the city of Al-Sanamayn, between the Syrian internal security forces on one side and a cell belonging to the ISIS organisation, which is designated on terrorism lists, on the other.
Why is this claim misleading?
Changing the context: The claim relied on republishing video clips of the Al-Sanamayn clashes while attaching a new assertion that takes them out of their original substantive framing, in order to suggest that what took place was internal fighting among government forces.
