Claim MISLEADING

What is the truth about the video circulated as showing Syrian army training?

What is the truth about the video circulated as showing Syrian army training?

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Pages and accounts on social media circulated a video clip whose publishers claimed it documents training by the Syrian army.

A still from the clip circulated as showing Syrian army training

The Kashaf team followed up on the circulated claim and split the video into still frames to run a reverse search on them. It emerged that the clip is old and taken out of its temporal and geographic context, with no connection to the Syrian army: the results showed the video had previously been published on 02/02/2010, and platforms and websites circulated it at the time as having been filmed in Afghanistan.

Why is the report misleading?

False context: An old video clip dating back to 2010, previously published as having been filmed in Afghanistan, was republished and framed in a new context to claim it documents training by the Syrian army.